This book discusses the very important problem of disseminating personal or business data collected in censuses or surveys. It provides advice in practical situations how to protect individuals or businesses while presenting data in a way that makes them useful for statistical research. Both of the authors are employed at Statistics Netherlands.

Autorentext
Leon Willenborg has worked at the Department of Statistical Methods at Statistics Netherlands since 1983, first as a researcher and since 1989 as a senior researcher. Since 1989 his main field of research and consultancy has been statistical disclosure control. From 1996-1998 he was the project coordinator of the EU co-funded SDC project.

Inhalt
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.