RE: st: RE: automatic disclosure in tables

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

This is a good idea. 

It shows cells with zeros and ones identically, which may well be a feature for Percy. 
Similarly the threshold is easy to tune. 

What I meant by not trivial was that inserting other characters in the table would be difficult, but Austin is clearly right that blanking out cells is more straightforward. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Austin Nichols

Percy Scheller--

Is the kind of thing that is wanted?

sysuse auto, clear
gen edu=round(mpg,5)
ren rep78 sex
table sex edu
egen ct=count(sex), by(sex edu)
table sex edu if ct>1



On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I don't recall any such command. It doesn't sound at all trivial to program. It seems easier to edit output, or even to write programs to edit output.
>
> In this particular case, suppression seems counter-productive!
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> percy
>
> I once discovered an ado, which helps to automatically disclosure/suppress
> cell content if it makes a reidentification of single persons possible.
> Unfortunatelly this is years ago, I can't remember it or find it in my
> ado-files. Has anybody a hint for me?!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Percy Scheller
>
> Example (see low educated male, infact you might need to suppress a second
> information, too):
>
>
> . table sex edu
> ----------------------------------
>          |       Education
>      Sex |    low  medium    high
> ----------+-----------------------
>     male |      1       6       4
>   female |      8      53      26
> ----------------------------------
>
> . table sex edu
> ----------------------------------
>          |       Education
>      Sex |    low  medium    high
> ----------+-----------------------
>     male |      /       6       4
>   female |      8      53      26
> ----------------------------------


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