Proposals for 2001 samples of anonymized records: An assessment of disclosure risk

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 427-447

  Dale, Angela ^a   Elliot, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Census microdata; Confidentiality; Disclosure control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649152     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00212     Document Type: Article

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