Dissemination

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Dissemination of results
Irina Zbarskaya Federal State Statistics Service,
Russia
2
Dissemination of census results

• Publication of printed tables and reports
• Dissemination on computer media
• Online access
• ? to tables with results
• ? to census micro-data

3
Hard copies with census results

• Simplicity of execution (not require any
  particular equipment, software or technical
  skills)
• Largest number of potential users
• Obligatory presence of the meta-data (how the
  data were
• collected and processed, appraisals of the
  substantive
• significance of the results, etc.)
• Visualization of the results on maps,
• schedules, etc.

4
Electronic issues with census results

• Wide popularity of optical media
• Possibility of further data computer processing
  and analysis
• Main drawbacks of optical carriers
• - Limited capacity and vulnerability
• - Possible obsolescence

5
Online dissemination of results

• Speed, flexibility (static and dynamic
  information), cost (no
• expense of the production, printed materials
  or other data
• supports)
• Granting of different access rights to different
  groups of users
• Security measures (technical and normative) for
  the confidentiality of the individual data
  protection
• Possibility of the additional query to obtain
• and retrieve results that satisfy users needs

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Security measures of the micro-data

• Restriction of territorial detailed elaboration
  in the tables with results
• Depersonification of the micro-data (removal of
  personal name and local address)
• Removal / alteration of the detailed data with
  unique characteristics in tables
• Aggregation of too detailed information in tables