Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Census Frequency Tables

Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Census Frequency Tables

This paper provides a review of common statistical disclosure control (SDC) methods implemented at Statistical Agencies for standard tabular outputs containing whole population counts from a Census (either enumerated or based on a register). These methods include record swapping on the microdata prior to its tabulation and rounding of entries in the tables after they are produced. The approach ...

Frequency Tables Disclosure Control for the Abu Dhabi Census 2011

Statistics Centre-Abu Dhabi (SCAD) conducted a comprehensive population census for the emirate of Abu Dhabi in 2011 and released the results using online dissemination tools which allow the public to create frequency tables from census data down to small geographic areas having as few as 500 individuals. While increasing data availability, the flexibility of these tools introduced new risks of ...

Statistical Disclosure Control for the 2011 UK Census

Every 10 years since 1801, the UK has set aside one day for the census, whereby information is obtained on every member of the population. It is the most complete source of information about the population that we have with details of family composition, health, employment and other socio-economic characteristics. The information provided allows central and local Government, health authorities ...

Distributed Privacy-Preserving Methods for Statistical Disclosure Control

Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments

This article outlines procedures for taking the US census, making adjustments, and evaluating the results. The census turns out to be remarkably accurate. Statistical adjustment is unlikely to improve on the census, because adjustment can easily put in more error than it takes out. Indeed, error rates in the adjustment are comparable to if not larger than errors in the census. The data suggest ...