Statistical Disclosure Control

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Statistics Netherlands
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Last update: 10 Oct 2011

Deliverables of the CASC-project

Result per workpackage

Microdata: new masking methodology
Microdata: new disclosure risk assessment methodology
Software tools for microdata
Research on tabular data
OR-tools for tabular data
Software tools for tabular data
Testing methodology
Testing
Other

Microdata: new masking methodology

Number	Partner	Title
1.1-D1	Ruth Brand Sarah Giessing (Destatis)	Report on preparation of the data set and improvements on Sullivans algorithm
1.1-D4	Jim Burridge Luisa Franconi Silvia Polletine Julian Stander	A methodological framework for Statistical Disclosure Limitation of business microdata
1.1-D5	Josep M. Mateo-Sanz, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Francesc Sebé , Antoni Martínez-Ballesté, Àngel Torres and Narcís Macià (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)	New Microaggregation algorithms (Software documentation and related papers)
1.1-D5Bis	Francesc Sebé Feixas, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Josep M. Mateo-Sanz, Antoni Martínez-Ballesté, Àngel Torres and Narcís Macià (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)	The rankswapping algorithm (Software documentation and related paper)
1.1-D7	Vicenç Torra	Definition and implementation of aggregation procedures for SDC qualitative variables
1.1-D8-A	Josep Domingo-Ferrer and Vicenç Torra	Median based aggregation operators for prototype construction in ordinal scales
1.1-D8-B	Josep Domingo-Ferrer and Vicenç Torra	Extending Microaggregation Procedures using Defuzzification Methods for Categorical Variables
1.1-D8-C	Vicenç Torra	Parameter and parameter files description of the main program
1.1-D9	Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Josep M. Mateo-Sanz, Àngel Torres and Narcís Macià	Scientific papers on new microaggregation methods, their security and their comparison with other masking methods
1.1-D10	Vicenç Torra	Scientific papers on semantics and aggregation procedures for SDC of qualitative variables

Microdata: new disclosure risk assessment methodology

Number	Partner	Title
1.2-D1	Alessandra Capobianchi Silvia Polettini Maurizio Lucarelli (IStat)	Strategy for the implementation of individual risk methodology into µ-ARGUS: independent units
1.2-D2	Alessandra Capobianchi Silvia Polettini Maurizio Lucarelli (IStat)	Strategy for the implementation of individual risk methodology into µ-ARGUS: case of independent and hierarchical units
1.2-D3	Silvia Polettini and Giovanni Seri	Guidelines for the protection of social micro-data using individual risk methodology (Revised)
1.2-D4	Elsayed Elamir and Chris Skinner	Microdata: New Disclosure Risk Assessment Methodology, Theory
1.2-D5	Elsayed Elamir and Chris Skinner	Case study: measures of risk for record level measures (final report)

Software tools for microdata

Number	Partner	Title
2-D2	Anco Hundepool	µ-ARGUS 3.1 manual
2-D4	Anco Hundepool	µ-ARGUS 3.2 manual
2-D6	Anco Hundepool	µ-ARGUS 4.0 manual
2-D5	Anco Hundepool	µ-ARGUS 4.0 software

Research on tabular data

Number	Partner	Title
3-D2	Sarah Giessing (Destatis)	Software concept and design specification document for τ-ARGUS
3-D5	Sarah Giessing (Destatis)	Benchmarking report
3-D6	Sarah Giessing (Destatis)	Research report on methods for co-ordination of suppression patterns when assigned decentralised. User’s guide for how to use specialised control mechanisms of the software.

OR-tools for tabular data

Number	Partner	Title
4.1-D1	JJ Salazar	Mathematical Models for cell-suppression
4.1-D3	JJ Salazar	Scientific articles on cell-suppression algorithms
4.1-D5	Jordi Castro	User’s and programmer’s manual of the network flows heuristics package for cell suppression in 2D tables
4.1-D6	Jordi Castro	User’s and programmer’s manual of the network flows heuristic package for cell suppression in 1H2D tables

Software tools for tabular data

Number	Partner	Title
4.2-D2	Anco Hundepool	τ-ARGUS 2.1 manual
4.2-D4	Anco Hundepool	τ-ARGUS 2.2 manual
4.2-D6	Anco Hundepool	τ-ARGUS 3.0 manual
4.2-D5	Anco Hundepool	τ-ARGUS software

Testing methodology

Number	Partner	Title
5-D1	Mark Eliot and Kingsley Purdam (intro only)	An evaluation of the availability of public data sources which could be used for identification purposes – A Europe wide perspective.
5-D2	Mark Eliot	A Case Study of the Impact of Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality in the UK Samples of Anonymised Records
5-D3	Mark Eliot and Kingsley Purdam	A Case Study of the Impact of Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality in the UK Samples of Anonymised Records (revised)
5-D4	Sarah Giessing	Changes to Plan in CASC: Replacing Testing of Masking Methods by Development of Record Linkage Software
5-D5	Luisa Franconi Silvia Polettini Gianni Seri	Proposal for the creation of a micro-data file for research for Business Surveys Part1 Part2
5-D6	Sarah Giessing	Reports on and strategies for effective application of cell suppression tools and methods, as included in τ-ARGUS Part 1 Part 2

Testing

Number	Partner	Title
6-D1	Giovanni Merola	Testing of µ-ARGUS version 3.1
6-D2	Giovanni Merola	Testing of τ-ARGUS version 2.1
6-D3	Sarah Giessing	Test report on implementation of GHQUAR
6-D4	Giovanni Merola	Testing of µ-Argus 3.2
6-D5	Giovanni Merola	Testing of τ-ARGUS version 2.2
6-D6	Josep A. Sánchez Julià Urrutia and Enric Ripoll	Test report on multivariate microaggregation in µ-Argus 3.2
6-D7	Sarah Giessing	Test report on implementation of cell-suppression algorithms
6-D8	Marta Mas, Julià Urrutia and Enric Ripoll	Test report on network solution for large unstructured 2 dimensional tables in τ-Argus 2.2.2

Overview

Number	Partner	Title
9-D1	Anco Hundepool	Evaluation summary
9-D2	Anco Hundepool	Summary of CASC