This paper describes the process of statistical disclosure analysis and control applied by the Statistical Institute of Catalonia
(Idescat) to microdata samples from census/surveys with some population uniques. Since 1995, by means of models which allows
calculation of the risk and data protection procedures, some empirical evidences have been achieved in order to check the
performance of μ-ARGUS in a real situation of unique populations, with large files and re-identification keys. The analyzing
way used preferably is the measuring of dimensions (to a maximum of six) and the recodification on the changes of information
loss versus the disclosure risk variations in the dissemination of anonymized registers. These results should be systematically
extented to both social and business (micro)data so as they could allow us to test the effectiveness of new μ-ARGUS features
in the undergoing CASC project.
Keywords Disclosure risk - information loss - unique populations - anonymized records - re-identification - subsample methods
This work was partly subsidized by the 5th Framework program of European Commission under grant no. IST-2000-25069. The views
expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies of the Statistical Institute
of Catalonia (Idescat).