title: The sample of anonymised records.
abstract: The author describes the purchase of two samples of anonymized records from the 1991 United Kingdom census and the creation of a center at the University of Manchester to act both as distributor of these data to the academic community and as a focus for research on substantive and methodological topics connected with census microdata.  She "describes the legal problems and public sensitivities involved, makes comparisons with other countries' handling of census data, [and] describes the information to be released and the broad types of usage envisaged."
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marsh
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D003219:Confidentiality; D003625:Data Collection; D019049:Developed Countries; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D004989:Ethics; D005060:Europe; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012106:Research; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Census; Confidential Information; Data Collection; Data Files; Data Sources; Developed Countries; Ethics; Europe; Northern Europe; Population Statistics; Research Methodology; United Kingdom