Statistical Disclosure Control in Practice

1 Introduction to Statistical Disclosure Control.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The increasing importance of SDC.- 1.3 The Problems.- 2 Principles.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Basic Concepts.- 2.3 Preliminaries on the SDC for Microdata.- 2.4 The Philosophy of SDC for Microdata.- 2.5 The World According to a Releaser of Microdata.- 2.6 SDC for Tables.- 3 Policies and Case Studies.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Options for Data Dissemination.- 3.3 SDC Policy for Microdata of Various Statistical Offices.- 3.4 The Netherlands: WSA.- 3.5 Great Britain: Samples of Anonymized Records.- 3.6 Eurostat.- 3.7 Luxemburg Income Study.- 4 Microdata.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 SDC rules.- 4.3 SDC for Microdata Sets in Practice.- 5 Microdata: Backgrounds.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Estimation of Population Frequencies.- 5.3 Continuous Variables.- 5.4 Global Recoding and Local Suppression.- 5.5 Sampling Weights.- 5.6 The Re-identification Risk of an Entire Microdata Set.- 6 Tabular Data.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Tables with Magnitude Data.- 6.3 Sensitive Cells in Frequency Count Data.- 6.4 Disclosure Control Measures.- 6.5 Recommendations.- 6.6 Linked Tables.- 7 Tabular Data: Backgrounds.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Sensitivity Measures.- 7.3 Secondary Cell Suppression.- 7.4 Stochastic Rounding.- 7.5 Linked Tables.- 8 Loose Ends.- References.