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The International Network for Exchanging Experience on Statistical Handling of Granular Data (INEXDA) is a collaborative project involving central banks, the ECB, Eurostat, and other international organizations and national statistical institutes, with strong support from the BIS. The primary goal of INEXDA is to facilitate the exchange of experiences related to the statistical handling of granular data for research purposes.
In 2023, INEXDA established a working group to address the issue of Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC). This working group has made significant progress in identifying the current needs, procedures, and tools used by its members. Building on this foundation, the group aims to harmonize SDC practices by proposing common rules for output checking, particularly for cases where the dataset shared with researchers at different access points is the same. Output Checking is a process that ensures that results produced from confidential data do not reveal sensitive information.
To achieve this, the working group has produced a document outlining standardized guidelines and best practices that researchers must follow within the INEXDA framework. The document provides detailed anonymization rules that researchers must follow before releasing their output, recommendations for best practices to ensure reproducibility and compliance with anonymity standards, and guidelines for the publication phase.
