Geographically intelligent disclosure control for flexible aggregation of census data

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 457-482

  Young, Caroline ^a   Martin, David ^a   Skinner, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Census data; Privacy; Quality issues; Small area geography; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DATA QUALITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449563285     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810801949835     Document Type: Article

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