Wp.8 English Only United Nations Statistical Commission and Economic Commission for Europe Conference of European Statisticians European Commission Statistical Office of the European Communities (eurostat) Joint Unece/eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality Microaggregation Heuristics for P-sensitive K-anonymity

WP.14 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EUROSTAT)

United Nations Statistical Commission and European Commission Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Office of the Conference of European Statisticians European Communities (eurostat) Joint Ece/eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality Balancing Data Quality and Confidentiality for Tabular Data Invited Paper

1. Tabular data are the earliest form and remain a staple of official statistics data products. Familiar examples of tabular data products in official statistics include count data such as age-race-sex and other demographic data, concentration (or percentage) data such in financial or energy utilization statistics, and magnitude data such as total retail sales or air pollution data. Confidentia...

WP.2 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EUROSTAT)

The European Union is facing the problem of releasing microdata in a multinational setting i.e. microdata stemming from twenty seven member states. Different laws, methodologies, practices and cultural approaches to confidentiality may severely limit the possibility of obtaining comprehensive anonymised data sets. We recall the approach adopted in Europe to design and manage harmonised statisti...

WP. 27 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EUROSTAT)

Reluctance of statistical agencies and other data owners to share their possibly confidential or proprietary data with others who own related databases is a serious impediment to conducting mutually beneficial analyses. This paper reviews methods for secure computation that potentially allow agencies to share data without compromising data confidentiality. The methods discussed include secure s...

STATISTICAL COMMISSION and COMMISSION OF THE ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS EUROSTAT Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality

In this paper we consider a first attempt to deal with re-identification of individuals when the variables in the two data files to be matched are not exactly the same but "similar".