Official documentation
Anonymisation: Data Management Expert Guide
CESSDA, Data Management Expert Guide, n.d.
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- What it is
- Guidance from the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives on protecting participants by anonymising research data. It gives best practice for qualitative data, including when to anonymise and how to replace names.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by a research data infrastructure for social science data management. It is guidance, not law, and the rules that apply to a given study depend on its ethics approval and data agreements.
Facts taken from this source
- The CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide advises planning anonymisation at the time of transcription or initial write-up.
“Plan anonymisation at the time of transcription or initial write-up” (Best practices for anonymising qualitative data)