Statistical disclosure risk assessment and control
The aim of statistical disclosure control (SDC) is to prevent sensitive information about individual respondents from being disclosed. Statistical agencies have statutory and ethical obligations to protect the confidentiality of the data they collect. At the same time, there are increasing demands by researchers and policy makers for Statistical agencies to release information to be used for statistical purposes.
- Ongoing research projects with the UK Office for National Statistics on topics such as disclosure risk assessment for survey microdata and SDC methods for the 2011 Census outputs based on a disclosure risk-data utility approach
- Representation on the UK Census Methodology Advisory Committee Statistical Disclosure Control Sub-group, as well as the Task Force on European Union Methodology for Census Data Disclosure Control (CENSDC)
- Chris Skinner is Editor and Natalie Shlomo and Jon Forster are Associate Editors of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
- In May 2004, S3RI sponsored an international Confidentiality Symposium.
Areas of interest include
- Disclosure risk assessment for survey microdata
- Optimisation of statistical disclosure control methods
- Statistical disclosure control methods for census outputs
- Disclosure risk control using synthetic data
- Bayesian disclosure risk estimation
Short course at Southampton: Statistical Disclosure Control. Chris Skinner and Natalie Shlomo, October 19-23, 2009