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Title: Strategies to Achieve SDC Harmonisation at European Level: Multiple Countries, Multiple Files, Multiple Surveys

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15838-4_25

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Abstract: Preliminary considerations and an initial proposal are made for the harmonisation of different statistical disclosure limitation procedures at European level. Here we present the case of microdata file but the same approach could be successfully applied to other types of releases as well. The proposal is based on two pillars: in the methodological part, contrary to the proposal of Pérez-Duarte (2009), the harmonisation concept is defined by means of a set of minimal requirements on both the input and the output of the anonymisation process. In the organisational part, the burden is shared among actors in the European Statistical System. A proposal for a possible implementation of both the methodological and procedural/organisational framework is sketched. Issues related to the release of multiple files from the same survey i.e. from the same original dataset, are sketched. The release of multiple files is a new feature at European level stemming from the introduction of the public use file (PUF) concept in the new regulation on European statistics. This implies that for the same survey both a public use file and a microdata file for scientific purposes might be available: care must be taken in designing such files in order to avoid incoherence. Finally, the problem of the impact on the coherence of an anonymisation procedure of the release of a system of surveys is briefly explored.

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-15838-4_25

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Authors: Ichim, Daniela; Franconi, Luisa

Conference Name: International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases

Publisher Location: Corfu, Greece

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection

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