Statistical Disclosure Control (PDF)

A reference to answer all your statistical confidentiality
questions.

This handbook provides technical guidance on statistical
disclosure control and on how to approach the problem of balancing
the need to provide users with statistical outputs and the need to
protect the confidentiality of respondents. Statistical disclosure
control is combined with other tools such as administrative, legal
and IT in order to define a proper data dissemination strategy
based on a risk management approach.

The key concepts of statistical disclosure control are
presented, along with the methodology and software that can be used
to apply various methods of statistical disclosure control.
Numerous examples and guidelines are also featured to illustrate
the topics covered.

Statistical Disclosure Control:

* Presents a combination of both theoretical and practical
solutions

* Introduces all the key concepts and definitions involved with
statistical disclosure control.

* Provides a high level overview of how to approach problems
associated with confidentiality.

* Provides a broad-ranging review of the methods available to
control disclosure.

* Explains the subtleties of group disclosure control.

* Features examples throughout the book along with case studies
demonstrating how particular methods are used.

* Discusses microdata, magnitude and frequency tabular data, and
remote access issues.

* Written by experts within leading National Statistical
Institutes.

Official statisticians, academics and market researchers who
need to be informed and make decisions on disclosure limitation
will benefit from this book.