Dear colleagues,
regarding the ongoing discussion on the release of official microdata for research purposes, I would like to draw your attention on a UWE working paper by Hans-Peter Hafner, Felix Ritchie and Rainer Lenz "User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata"
Abstract: When producing anonymised microdata for research, national statistics institutes (NSIs) identify a number of 'risk scenarios' of how intruders might seek to attack a confidential dataset. This paper argues that the strategy used to identify confidentiality protection measures can be seriously misguided, mainly since scenarios focus on data protection without sufficient reference to other aspects of data. This paper brings together a number of findings to see how the above problem can be addressed in a practical context. Using as an example the creation of a scientific use file, the paper demonstrates that an alternative perspective can have dramatically different outcomes
The paper can be downloaded here: http://www2.uwe.ac.uk/faculties/BBS/BUS/Research/Economics%20Papers%202015/1503.pdf
Kind regards
Heike Wirth
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Dr. Heike Wirth
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
German Microdata Lab
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