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Panel on Confidential Data Access for Research Purposes
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Background
The Panel on Confidential Data Access for Research Purposes was convened by the Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, in January 2003. Eleanor Singer is the chair of the panel. She is a Senior Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Late in 2002, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) assembled its panel to study and make recommendations about how microdata can best be made available to researchers while, at the same time, protecting respondent confidentiality. The panel will, as part of its mission, organize a workshop, from which a report will be produced, and that will ultimately serve as input to a final report. The panel is following up on many of the topics discussed in the October 1999 CNSTAT workshop on data confidentiality, but focusing more closely on longitudinal research microdata.
The panel will: assess currently available approaches for giving researchers access to data that do not involve abridging assurances to survey respondents; consider the implications, for statistical disclosure, of including or withholding certain variables, especially in longitudinal files; investigate what additional types of access might be made available in the future; consider how measurement of the risk of statistical disclosure might be improved; and attempt to frame research indicating what kind of risk the public is willing to accept and how best to inform people about the risks of disclosure. Additionally, the panel will consider the more general question of how to discuss the social benefits and associated disclosure risks of data access for research purposes. The study will lead to a report of findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
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Roster
- ELEANOR SINGER (Chair), Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- JOE S. CECIL, Division of Research, The Federal Judicial Center, Washington, DC
- GEORGE T. DUNCAN, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- DIANE LAMBERT, AT&T Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
- V. JOSEPH HOTZ, School of Public and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles
- JOHN ABOWD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- MICHAEL HURD, RAND, Santa Monica, CA
- RICHARD ROCKWELL, The Roper Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- KENNETH PREWITT, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Staff
- Christopher Mackie, Study Director
- Allison Shoup, Project Assistant
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Publications
Below are papers and presentations given at the October 16-17, 2003 Confidential Data Access for Research Purposes Workshop:
John M. Abowd and Julia I. Lane
John Bailar
Ramon Barquin and Clayton Northouse
Charles Brown
Andrew K.G. Hildreth
Mike Larsen
David McMillen Paper and Attachment
Henry Perritt, Jr.
Trivellore E. Raghuanthan
J.P. Reiter
Sandra Rowland Paper and Presentation
Marilyn Seastrom Paper and Presentation
William Seltzer and Margo Anderson
Katherine Wallman 
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