International Record Linkage Conference

该奖项为1997年3月20日至21日在华盛顿特区举办的为期两天的记录联系问题讲习班提供部分支助。研讨会由美国国家科学院应用与理论统计委员会、华盛顿统计学会、人口普查局、国家农业统计局和国家卫生统计中心主办。数据共享的整个概念是广泛和普遍的；因此，许多不同的政府机构以及私营部门将从这次讲习班中受益。自从上一次美国记录链接研讨会(1985年)以来，特别是在最近几年，已经取得了很大成就，并出现了相关研究的新领域。会议将重点关注的这些问题包括：由于记录链接而增加的隐私问题，通过使用记录链接更有效地使用统计资源的日益重要的问题，由于医疗保健改革等辩论而引起的对链接技术的高度兴趣，数据的物理安全问题，以及公共使用微数据文件中保密和重新识别风险的衡量。会议记录将记录受邀的发言，并总结讨论情况，提出下一个十年的研究挑战。

This award provides partial support for a two-day workshop on record linkage in Washington, D.C. on 20-21 March 1997. The workshop is sponsored by the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington Statistical Society, the Bureau of the Census, the National Agricultural Statistical Service, and the National Center for Health Statistics. The whole concept of data sharing is broad-based and pervasive; consequently, many different governmental agencies as well as the private sector will benefit from this workshop. Since the only previous major U.S. record linkage workshop (in 1985), much has been accomplished, especially in recent years, and new areas of related research have arisen. A sampling of these which the conference will spotlight includes the increased privacy concerns due to record linkage, the growing importance of more efficient use of statistical resources by using record linkage, heightened interest in linkage technology due to debates such as health care reform, issues in physical security of data, and the measurement of nondisclosure and reidentification risks in public use microdata files. Proceedings of the conference will capture the invited presentations as well as summarize discussions and suggest research challenges for the next decade.