Research article
A method for managing re-identification risk from small geographic areas in Canada
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* Corresponding author: Khaled El Emam kelemam@uottawa.ca
1 Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1J 8L1, Canada
2 Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3 GIS Infrastructure, Office of Public Health Practice, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9, Canada
4 Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
5 Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1J 8L1, Canada
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:18 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-10-18
Published: 2 April 2010Additional files
Additional file 1:
Mapping census geography to postal geography using a gridding methodology. Describes the methodology we used to assign a postal code to each record in the census file.
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Evaluating dimensions of risk. Presents the validated checklists for evaluating the "invasion of privacy" and "motives and capacity" dimensions of disclosure risk.
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