Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices Relating to Confidentiality |
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| Authors: | Myron P Gutmann Kristine Witkowski Corey Colyer JoAnne McFarland O’Rourke James McNally |
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| Institution: | (1) Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, PO Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA;(2) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA |
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| Abstract: | Spatially explicit data pose a series of opportunities and challenges for all the actors involved in providing data for long-term
preservation and secondary analysis—the data producer, the data archive, and the data user. We report on opportunities and
challenges for each of the three players, and then turn to a summary of current thinking about how best to prepare, archive,
disseminate, and make use of social science data that have spatially explicit identification. The core issue that runs through
the paper is the risk of the disclosure of the identity of respondents. If we know where they live, where they work, or where
they own property, it is possible to find out who they are. Those involved in collecting, archiving, and using data need to
be aware of the risks of disclosure and become familiar with best practices to avoid disclosures that will be harmful to respondents.
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| Keywords: | Archives Confidentiality Data Disclosure Location |
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