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- Title
Research Access to Microdata - Challenges to Confidentiality Protection and Main Constraints.
- Authors
TURTOI, Crina; GAVRILESCU, Camelia; IONEL, Iuliana; TOMA, Camelia; TURTOI, Radu
- Abstract
Research demand for microdata encounters specific particularities due to the basic requirements for providing decision makers with accurate and reliable studies. As microdata refers to unit record or low level data that has not been sufficiently aggregated to be made publicly available, the main challenges for research institutes resides in the need to protect respondent confidentiality. The paper focuses on the opportunities brought by using the microdata for better serving the research heeds in its endeavours of giving new insights in the content of the data, by taking into consideration the key challenges arising from confidentiality routines. New internet based applications not only that may allow users from research environment to easily query microdata, but also may facilitate researchers to cope with large database ensuring that the privacy of respondents and integrity of data is preserved. Having in view the increasing demand of microdata for scientific research, there is a need to agree on the best approaches that might ease the access to microdata for researchers, first at national level and secondly at the European Union level. A key determinant .in this approach is the infrastructure and data storage capacity of the research institutes. The paper describes the framework and objective characterizing this core issue and indentifies possible solutions for proper results by a complex analysis of the data collected at public expense, taking into consideration the increased concerns over data confidentiality.
- Subjects
EUROPE; CONFIDENTIAL communications; DECISION making; RESEARCH institutes; INTERNET; EUROPEAN Union; DETERMINANTS (Mathematics); DATA protection
- Publication
Bulletin of the University of Agricultural Sciences & Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Horticulture, 2012, Vol 69, Issue 2, p324
- ISSN
1843-5254
- Publication type
Article