Area of work: Privacy and confidentiality

Statistical Disclosure Control for tables produced from administrative data

This guidance outlines the main steps to be taken in considering disclosure control, while allowing different solutions to be developed for different datasets, taking into account detailed risk assessment and the latest disclosure control methods.

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Statistical Disclosure Control for tables produced from surveys

This guidance outlines the main steps to be taken when protecting outputs from surveys in considering disclosure control.

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Statistical Disclosure Control for microdata produced from social survey data

This guidance covers how to assess microdata risk and methods of mitigating this risk. It considers suitable methods of disclosure control required to ensure the confidentiality of released microdata. It also highlights specific issues, such as those relating to longitudinal data and large households.

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An introduction to Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC)

This guidance describes the statistical disclosure control (SDC) approach that data providers should follow when producing standard outputs and ad-hoc requests.

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Data sharing for national crisis response

A guide covering basic principles and best practice for sharing data, analysis, and statistics between government organisations in times of national crisis and to meet urgent operational need.

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Privacy and data confidentiality methods: a Data and Analysis Method Review (DAMR)

This is the National Statistician's Quality Review on privacy and data confidentiality methods.

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and statistics

This guidance provides advice on using GDPR for statistical purposes.

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