0 detailed information about particular people, families, etc. who were part of a general survey (= an examination of opinions, behaviour, etc.): --
This microdata file contains household information for a representative sample of almost 40,000 families and individuals.
As the final product does not contain any protected microdata, the can be distributed without any confidentiality concerns.
Microdata uses a supporting vocabulary to describe an item and name-value pairs to assign values to its properties.
All statistics are computed from microdata of the main household surveys carried out in the countries.
Moreover, the legislation in this current draft allows only the transmission of aggregated data, not of microdata.
Two census microdata samples have been used to inform this study.
Even when the implications are the same, the nature of aggregate data imposes special restrictions irrelevant to the microdata.
A second advantage of individual-level analysis is that the microdata permits controls for other determinants of the retirement decisions.