Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis
Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis
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提供空间数据进行二次分析
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2009
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通讯作者:
J. Mcnally
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作者:
M. Gutmann;K. Witkowski;C. Colyer;J. Mcnally
Abstract Spatially explicit data pose a series of opportunities and challenges for all the actors involved inproviding data for long-term preservation and secondary analysis -- the data producer, the dataarchive, and the data user. We report on opportunities and challenges for each of the three players,and then turn to a summary of current thinking about how best to prepare, archive, disseminate, andmake use of social science data that have spatially explicit identification. The core issue that runsthrough the paper is the risk of the disclosure of the identity of respondents. If we know where theylive, where they work, or where they own property, it is possible to find out who they are. Thoseinvolved in collecting, archiving, and using data need to be aware of the risks of disclosure andbecome familiar with best practices to avoid disclosures that will be harmful to respondents. Keywords archives; confidentiality; data; disclosure; locationThis paper is about the challenges involved in producing, archiving, and sharing social sciencedata that have spatially explicit information embedded within them, all while avoiding the riskof disclosing private information about the individuals who have consented to shareinformation about themselves, in the case of survey research, or who are part of the universeof individuals included in an administrative record system or database. It takes as its startingpoint the perspective of the data archivist, but it tries to maintain a clear understanding of thecompeting interests of the data producer, the data user, the survey respondent, and the managerof the data repository, not to mention whatever organization has provided the resources requiredto collect, clean, document, and disseminate the data. Like others who are concerned aboutprotecting the confidentiality of survey respondents, we are acutely aware that the wealth ofinformation publicly available today increases the risk that someone will breach the promiseof confidentiality that is made when most social science data are collected. Spatially explicitdata, because they are by definition linked to a specific location that might be someone’s homeor another easily identifiable place, have the potential to aggravate that risk. Our goal here isto describe many of the issues, identify some of the ways that confidentiality can be protected,and then draw conclusions about current best practices.