The case for small area microdata

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

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-49

  Tranmer, Mark ^a   Pickles, Andrew ^a   Fieldhouse, Ed ^a   Elliot, Mark ^a   Dale, Angela ^a   Brown, Mark ^a   Martin, David ^b   Steel, David ^c   Gardiner, Chris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Census; Data intrusion simulation; Local area effects; Multilevel models; Population threshold; Samples of anonymized records

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844273729     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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