Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality 2019

Comprehensive and other presentations

Organizers: Steering Committee

High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics. Taeke Gjaltema (UNECE)

Session: Microdata access facilities (topic 1: Access to microdata)

Session Organizers: Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat), Janika Tarkoma (Statistics Finland) and Steven Thomas (Statistics Canada)

Romania NIS – Microdata for scientific purposes. Lucian Alexandrescu (National Institute of Statistics of Romania)

Presentation

Joint Safe Centre of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Zoltán Vereczkei (Hungarian Central Statistical Office), János Köllő (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Virtual data labs - A more flexible approach to access Statistics Canada microdata. Kelly Cranswick (Statistics Canada)

Harnessing the potentiality of microdata access risk management model. Natalia Volkow (INEGI)

Data Confidentiality in ICBS Research Rooms. Julia Vider (CBS, Israel)

Accessing Data in the ONS Secure Research Service: A Certification Regime for Remote Connectivity. Andrew Engeli (ONS, UK)

Session: Risk assessment (topic 3)

Session Organizers: : Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Krish Muralidhar (University of Oklahoma)

Trade-off between Information Utility and Disclosure Risk in GA Synthetic Data Generator. Yingrui Chen, Jennifer Taub, Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)

The Synthetic Data Challenge. Mark Elliot and Jennifer Taub (University of Manchester)

Connecting privacy models and statistical disclosure control methods through bistochastic anonymization. Krish Muralidhar (U.Oklahoma), Nicolas Ruiz (OECD), Josep Domingo-Ferrer (URV)

Privacy, confidentiality, disclosure: What is the difference ? Krish Muralidhar (University of Oklahoma), Rathindra Sarathy (Oklahoma State University)

Assessing the re-identification potential of health care data for people with statutory health insurance in Germany (preliminary results).

Session: Confidentiality issues of the Census 2020/2021 round (topic 6)

Session Organizers: Eric Schulte Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)

A framework for assessing perturbative methods for protection of Census 2021 data at Statistics Portugal. Ines Rodrigues, Paula Campos and Teresa Fragoso (Statistics Portugal)

Ensuring data confidentiality of All-Russian Population Census 2020. Anna Troitskaya (Rosstat)

Paper

Session: Tabular data (topic 2)

Session Organizers: Sarah Giessing (Destatis)

Concepts for generalising tools implementing the cell key method to the case of continuous variables. Sarah Giessing and Reinhard Tent (Destatis)

Using a stabilized Benders algorithm for cell suppression. Daniel Baena, Jordi Castro and Antonio Frangioni (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

Releasable inner cell frequencies by post-processing protected tabular data. Øyvind Langsrud (Statistics Norway)

Primary analysis of disclosure risk in tabular data from a Brazilian economic survey. Samela Batista Arantes and Maysa S. de Magalhaes (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics)

Algorithmic Matching Attacks on Optimally Suppressed Tabular Data. Kazuhiro Minami (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo)

ABS perturbation methodology through the lens of Differential Privacy.  Joseph Chien (ABS)

Session: Microdata protection  (topic 1: access to microdata)

Session Organizer: Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat), Janika Tarkoma (Statistics Finland) and Steven Thomas (Statistics Canada)

Statistical Disclosure Control for outputs:  A Handbook. Richard Welpton and Arne Wolters (The Health Foundation), Emily Griffiths (University of Manchester), James Scott and Christine Woods (University of Essex)

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Presentation

A practice guide for microdata anonymization. Thijs Benschop and Matthew Welch (World Bank)

Training research output checkers. Felix Ritchie (University of the West of England)

Creation of synthetic microdata using dummy random variables of high dimension statistics based on big data. Kiyomi Shirakawa, (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

Session: Framework for confidentiality (topic 5)

Session Organizer: Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat), Janika Tarkoma (Statistics Finland)

Understanding personalities in data access decision-making. Richard Welpton (The Health Foundation)

Successes and Challenges in Increasing Accessibility at Statistics Canada. Steven Thomas (Statistics Canada)

Evaluation criteria for the selection of a SDC Method. Christiane Seifert, Johannes Rohde (IT.NRW) and Sarah Giessing (Destatis)

Crisis management – training, practicing and testing. Janika Tarkoma and Harri Koskinen (Statistics Finland)

Data protection laws and methods in official statistics. Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat)

Session: Emerging issues (topic 4)

Session Organizer: Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Comparing methods of safely plotting variables on a map. Y. (Sapphire) Han, Peter-Paul de Wolf and Edwin de Jonge (Statistics Netherlands)

Privacy Preserving Set Intersection. Guiseppe Bruno and Diana Nicoletti (Bank of Italy), Monica Scannapieco and Diego Zardetto (Istat)

The Potential of Anonymization Methods for Creating Detailed Geographical Data in Japan. Shinsuke Ito (Chuo University, Japan) and Masayuki Terada (NTT DOCOMO, INC, Japan)

Protecting consumer privacy in smart metering by randomized response. Bastian Stölb and Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Statistical confidentiality of agricultural surveys in the context of the AGRISurvey program. Thijs Benschop, Clara Aida Khalil (FAO)

Session: Software tools for statistical data confidentiality (topic 7)

Session Organizer: Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands)

cellKey - consistent perturbation of statistical tables. Bernhard Meindl (Statistics Austria) and Tobias Enderle (Destatis)

Microdata.no - Safe Access to Register Microdata. Johan Heldal and Svein Johansen (Statistics Norway), Ørnulf Risnes (Norwegian Centre for Research Data)