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As such, these sorts of datasets

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:26 am
by asimj1
Even surveys like the OxWell Student Survey, which don’t collect person identifiers or use unique logins, and even minimise the collection of demographics, must consider potential contexts in which the chance of identifying participants in the data increases, such as by someone who knows the participants. need to be classified as personal data (falling under GDPR), and sharing must adhere to the relevant privacy information shared with the data subjects as well as high data security standards.

Although researchers don’t want to identify the data asia rcs data participants and just want to extract informative summaries of results from the data, informative analyses often require the inclusion of multiple key demographic and contextual variables to accurately account for the different sources of variance in the data.

For example, the health and development of children and adolescents will depend on the availability of good nutrition (i.e. family income) as well as air pollution (home location).

Sometimes it feels like data protection officers are just there to reduce the validity of our analyses by asking us to limit our selection of variables, but where it is possible to ensure the data collected or requested are anonymous, then we can save ourselves a lot of time (and paperwork) at the same time as protecting the identity of the data subjects.