The joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality will be hosted by Statistics Netherlands in The Hague, on 29-31 October 2019.
Session Organizers: Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat), Janika Tarkoma (Statistics Finland) and Steven Thomas (Statistics Canada)
Session 1.1: Microdata access facilities
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Romania NIS – Microdata for scientific purposes. Lucian Alexandrescu (National Institute of Statistics of Romania)
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Joint Safe Center at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Beata Dobanyne Nagy, Eszter Regos (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
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Access to microdata in the State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia. Mirjana Bosnjak, Slobodan Malevski (State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia)
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A more flexible approach to access Statistics Canada microdata. Kelly Cranswick (Statistics Canada)
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Interoperability Challenges in Access to Microdata. Natalia Volkow (INEGI)
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Data Confidentiality in ICBS Research Rooms. Julia Vider (CBS, Israel)
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Session 3: Risk assessment
Session Organizers: : Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Krish Muralidhar (University of Oklahoma)
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Optimising the Trade-off between Information Utility and Disclosure Risk in a GA Synthetic Data Generator. Yingrui Chen, Jennifer Taub, Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)
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10 is the safest number that there’s ever been. Felix Ritchie (University of the West of England)
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The Synthetic Data Challenge. Mark Elliot and Jennifer Taub (University of Manchester)
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Connecting privacy models and statistical disclosure control methods through bistochastic anonymization. Krish Muralidhar (U.Oklahoma), Nicolas Ruiz (OECD), Josep Domingo-Ferrer (URV)
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What is the difference. Krish Muralidhar (University of Oklahoma), Rathindra Sarathy (Oklahoma State University)
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Session 6: Confidentiality issues of the Census 2020/2021 round
Session Organizers: Eric Schulte Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)
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A framework for assessing perturbative methods for protection of Census 2021 data at Statistics Portugal. Ines Rodrigues, Paula Campos and Teresa Fragoso (Statistics Portugal)
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Rosstat
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Session 2: Tabular data
Session Organizers: Sarah Giessing (Destatis)
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Draft concepts for generalising tools implementing the cell key method to the case of continuous variables. Sarah Giessing and Reinhard Tent (Destatis)
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Prodcom disclosure control with non-nested national and european classification. Maël Buron (Insee)
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Computational experience with stabilized Benders for the cell suppression problem. Daniel Baena, Jordi Castro and Antonio Frangioni (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
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)
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Algorithmic Matching Attacks on Optimally Suppresses Tabular Data. Japan Institute of Statistics
Session 1.2: Microdata protection
Session Organizer: Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat), Janika Tarkoma (Statistics Finland) and Steven Thomas (Statistics Canada)
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Promoting Statistical Disclosure Control for novices: A Handbook. Richard Welpton (The Health Foundation), Arne Wolters (The Health Foundation), Emily Griffiths (University of Manchester), James Scott (University of Essex), Christine Woods (University of Essex)
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Access to microdata: Case of household surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina-current practice and further development. Edin Šabanović (Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Synthetic data generation for anonymization purposes. Application on the Norwegian Survey on living conditions/EHIS. Johan Heldal and Diana-Cristina Iancu (Statistics Norway)
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A practice guide for microdata anonymization. Thijs Benschop and Matthew Welch (World Bank)
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Training research output checkers. Felix Ritchie (University of the West of England)
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Creation of synthetic microdata using dummy random variables of high dimension statistics based on big data. Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Session 5: Framework for confidentiality
Session Organizer: Aleksandra Bujnowska (Eurostat), Janika Tarkoma (Statistics Finland)
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Session 4: Emerging issues
Session Organizer: Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
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Session 7: Software tools for statistical data confidentiality
Session Organizer: Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands)