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Statistical Disclosure Control for tables produced from administrative data

Guidance

This guidance outlines the main steps to be taken in considering disclosure control, while allowing different solutions to be developed for different datasets, taking into account detailed risk assessment and the latest disclosure control methods.

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Statistical Disclosure Control for tables produced from surveys

Guidance

This guidance outlines the main steps to be taken when protecting outputs from surveys in considering disclosure control.

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Statistical Disclosure Control for microdata produced from social survey data

Guidance

This guidance covers how to assess microdata risk and methods of mitigating this risk. It considers suitable methods of disclosure control required to ensure the confidentiality of released microdata. It also highlights specific issues, such as those relating to longitudinal data and large households.

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An introduction to Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC)

Guidance

This guidance describes the statistical disclosure control (SDC) approach that data providers should follow when producing standard outputs and ad-hoc requests.

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Regulatory Language Processor: insights and outcomes from tagging metadata using Large Language Models

Research paper

This research paper sets out the process, insights and outcomes from the Department for Business and Trade's usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) to tag metadata for regulatory content.

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Empty homes statistics from across the UK: 2026

Report

This article brings together statistics on empty homes and housing stock recorded as vacant to help data users understand what comparisons can be made across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Developing sex and gender identity harmonised standards: findings from phase 1 of our research

Harmonisation standards and guidance

This report presents the first phase of work by the Government Statistical Service (GSS) to review the current and gender identity harmonised standards.

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A user guide to international trade statistics and trade asymmetries

User guide

This user guide outlines the different ways that UK trade statistics are collected and measured.

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Adolygiad o’r safon wedi’i chysoni ar gyfer ethnigrwydd: meini prawf gwerthuso a ddefnyddir ar gyfer opsiynau ymateb ychwanegol yn y safon newydd

Harmonisation standards and guidance

Welsh translation of the publication 'Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: evaluation criteria that will be used for additional response options in the new standard'.

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Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: evaluation criteria that will be used for additional response options in the new standard

Harmonisation standards and guidance

This publication sets out the evaluation criteria to be used in the consultation on user needs for additional response options in a future ethnicity standard. It also sets out the evaluation framework and evidence that will be provided when proposing the new ethnicity question.

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