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Panel on Confidentiality and Data Access
•Panel was first to provide generic labels for the two main alternatives that U.S. Federal statistical agencies use to protect the confidentiality of data that they collect.  These are:
–1.  Restricted data -- to restrict the content of the data prior to releasing it to the general public and
–2.  Restricted access -- to restrict the conditions under which the data can be accessed (i.e., who can have access, at what locations, for what purposes).
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