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Practical Guidelines

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This section offers some guidelines on how to implement traditional SDC methods in practice. A rough workflow is presented and described. In addition, a brief discussion on the selection of key variables, the acceptable risk of disclosure and the choice of SDC methods should guide the user to find the best methodology.

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Templ, M. (2017). Practical Guidelines. In: Statistical Disclosure Control for Microdata. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50272-4_7

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