The sample of anonymised records.

Abstract

The author describes the purchase of two samples of anonymized records from the 1991 United Kingdom census and the creation of a center at the University of Manchester to act both as distributor of these data to the academic community and as a focus for research on substantive and methodological topics connected with census microdata. She "describes the legal problems and public sensitivities involved, makes comparisons with other countries' handling of census data, [and] describes the information to be released and the broad types of usage envisaged."