This page provides links and conventional references to much of the research sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau in the areas of statistical disclosure control, confidentiality, and disclosure limitation. Some of the work cited was conducted by the Disclosure Limitation Research Group within the Statistical Research Division (SRD) of the U.S. Census Bureau. 

 
Documents used by the Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board
            Questions and Answers about Clearing Data for Public Release     (FAQ;  pdf)
            Census Bureau Checklist (filled out for each data product)   (Checklist; pdf)      (Checklist; wpd)

Recent Census Bureau sponsored book on Confidentiality:
            "Confidentiality, Disclosure and Data Access,   Theory and Practical Applications for Statistical Agencies"

    For an abstract and ordering information see publisher's page:   Elsevier Science

    Two sections of this book can be viewed and/or printed.

        1. Chapter 1:   Introduction

        2. Annotated bibliography of some recent papers in SDC     (excerpted from chapter by Abowd and Woodcock)

 
List of References:  Microdata Confidentiality  References
Tables useful for Testing Tabular SDC  programs  (supplied by Ramesh.Dandekar@eia.doe.gov)
Count Tables (7 tables in a zip file)

Links to other agencies and organizations doing work in SDC

The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) oversees the

Confidentiality and Data Access Committee (CDAC)    CDAC

 
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has the following committee:

  Privacy and Confidentiality Committee

 
For information on the project:     Computational Aspects of Statistical Confidentiality

(CASC) funded by the European Union SDC group. CASC (European Union)

 A selection of  recent  SDC Research Papers by Census authors

Maintained by:    Paul B. Massell    paul.b.massell@census.gov