De identification of data 1

[SASexplorer]

I am pretty lost with de-identification of data, as in I want to change certain variable values so that confidential information does not get exposed. I am a novice at the usage of SAS. Even if you could tell me the fucntions which are used to achieve this purpose, I would be very thankful.

Thanks.

 

[ChrisW75]

Surely just removing the identifying data (name, address, account numbers etc) and replacing them with a unique reference number (keep a link to the original data separately so you can link back later if necessary) should be enough?

Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.

 

[dje]

You may consider the statement
data test;set confidentialdata;
drop var1 var2 var3;



( var1 var2 and var3 are the variables that you want to protect)

you may want to use some if statements to keep the fact that the variables exist but a more generic value is substituted via a if then conditional.

hope that helps

dje