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These microdata have been treated

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:15 am
by asimj1
Safeguarded data: licence suitable for data that are neither classified as Personal Data nor Personal Information but where there is a potential residual risk of disclosure.

Data otherwise referred to as effectively anonymised data as per ICO guidance. via recoding, top and/or bottom coding, suppression or perturbative anonymisation methods to ensure the south africa rcs data individuals are unlikely to be identifiable. The use of these data is subject to the UK Data Service End User Licence Agreement and additional conditions or agreements might apply.
Controlled data: licence suitable for data classified as Personal Information or Personal Data and data that are particularly sensitive, commercially or otherwise.

This is de-identified data i.e. indirectly identifiable, for which data protection legislation applies. For these type of data a legal gateway for sharing must be identified and besides being subject to the UK Data Service End User Licence Agreement access is facilitated via the Five Safes Framework.
We make available information about anonymisation on our webpages for both quantitative and qualitative data, including key anonymisation techniques to help data owners ensure the privacy of their research participants. As a renowned centre of expertise in curating data we follow current best practice in preparing, managing and documenting data. Further information about our curation process is available here.