Now online: 'Guidelines for Statistical Disclosure Control Methods Applied on Geo-Referenced Data'
A guidelines document I co-authored together with colleagues from France, Austria, Poland, and the Netherlands is now available online . These Guidelines for Statistical Disclosure Control Methods Applied on Geo-Referenced Data are the result of extensive work under the STACE project ( Statistical Methods and Tools for Time Series, Seasonal Adjustment and Statistical Disclosure Control ), together with my co-authors Julien Jamme, Edwin de Jonge, Andrzej Mlodak, Johannes Gussenbauer and Peter-Paul de Wolf. The document treats statistical methods to protect subject confidentiality when aggregates for small spatial areas are to be published. It extends and supplements the Handbook on Statistical Disclosure Control (currently in its new, second edition). Quoting from the Introduction: "Users of statistical data are often interested in spatial distribution patterns . A policy-maker may be interested in the distribution of income over the neighborhoods of a city, a health care profes...