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Activity Number:
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428
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #308319 |
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Title:
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Researcher Access to Microdata: Measuring the Impact of Different Access Protocols on Data Utility
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Author(s):
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Stephanie Shipp*+ and Julia Lane
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Companies:
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National Institute of Standards and Technology and NORC at the University of Chicago
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Address:
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100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-4710,
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Keywords:
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confidentiality ; data access ; data quality
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Abstract:
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Ensuring researcher access to data in a manner that simultaneously protects the privacy and confidentiality of human subjects and permits high quality research is a major challenge. A major innovation in this paper is that it describes a set of access protocols that combines elements from the computing and social sciences to develop secure remote data access protocols that provide technical security, as well as mechanisms to ensure confidence in computing and storage systems. The paper addresses three research questions. By how much can technical tools reduce the risk of disclosure associated with data access? What technical procedures have the least impact on research quality, conditional on their cost? What incentives are effective in promoting data documentation and use?
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