Title: | National Institute of Statistical Sciences Data Confidentiality Technical Panel: Final Report |
Description: | NCES asked the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) to convene a technical panel of survey and policy experts to examine the NCES current and planned data dissemination strategies for confidential data with respect to: mandates and directives that NCES make data available; current and prospective technologies for protecting and accessing confidential data, as well as for breaking confidentiality; and the various user communities for NCES data and these communities’ uses of the data. The principle goals of the technical panel were to review the NCES current and planned data dissemination strategies for confidential data, assessing whether these strategies are appropriate in terms of both disclosure risk and data utility, and then to recommend to NCES any changes that the task force deems desirable or necessary. The NISS technical panel delivered its report to NCES in 2008. The report included four principal recommendations, the first three of which confirmed existing NCES strategies and practices:
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Cover Date: | March 2011 |
Web Release: | March 10, 2011 |
Publication #: | NCES 2011608 |
Center/Program: | NCES |
Authors: | Alan Karr |
Type of Product: | Technical/Methodological Report |
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Statistical Standards and Data Confidentiality Staff (SSDCS) |
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