James Scott and Christine Woods, both Senior User Support and Training Officers at the UK Data Service, update us on the success of the Statistical Disclosure Control Handbook that they have co-authored with other members of the Safe Data Access Professionals (SDAP) group.
Background
Back in August 2019, members of the pakistan rcs data Safe Data Access Professionals (SDAP) group published the Statistical Disclosure Control Handbook.
The Handbook is intended as a handy reference guide to be used by both analysts and staff responsible for carrying out statistical disclosure control checks. It contains guidance on how to assess statistical results produced from confidential sources of data, before they are released from a safe setting, and dovetails with current training courses such as the Safe Researcher Training (SRT) course. It also provides advice to organisations on setting up and managing the SDC process. We wrote more about the handbook in a previous blog post.
Handbook Reception
The handbook has been well received in the sector and staff at a number of organisations tell us they are using it as their ‘go to’ reference material.