3.4 CONFIDENTIALISED UNIT RECORD FILES (CURFS)
CONFIDENTIALISED UNIT RECORD FILES (CURFS)
For clients wanting to produce their own tabulations and conduct manipulations of survey estimates a file containing unit records relating to almost all the survey respondents can be supplied. To protect the confidentiality of individual persons and households some data items are removed from the file and the level of detail for some items is reduced.
Four microdata files are available from these surveys:
- a basic HES CURF available on CD-ROM or through the Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL),
- a basic SIH CURF available on CD-ROM or through the RADL,
- an expanded HES CURF accessible only through the RADL, and
- an expanded SIH CURF accessible only through the RADL.
The expanded CURFs contain more detailed data for some variables than the basic CURFs, as well as some additional variables.
The RADL is a secure on-line data query service that clients can access via the ABS website. Because the CURFs are kept within the ABS environment, the ABS is able to release more detailed data via the RADL than can be made available on CD-ROM. Further information about this facility is available on the ABS website <https://www.abs.gov.au> (see Services We Provide, CURFs).
A second version of the HES CURFs will be released in 2007 incorporating the estimates produced in the study of the effects of government benefits and taxes on household income.
Clients interested in finding out more about the CURFs should contact the CURF Management Unit by email (curf.management@abs.gov.au) or by phone ((02) 6252 5853).
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