Our documentation
Here you will find key documents plus presentations from members of the Secure Data Service community.
- Policies and procedures

Code of Practice
The common code that guides us in our everyday practices to ensure that the privacy of respondents is respected.
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- Guides

Acknowledgements and Citations
A guide to how to provide an acknowledgement/citation referring to the source of data you have analysed, along with the owner of the data.
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- User Guide: What you need to know to access and use the Secure Data Service
- Microdata Handling and Security: Guide to Good Practice
- ESSNet SDC: Guidelines for the checking of outputs based on microdata research
- Secure Data Service Brochure
- Logging On for the First Time (with your Secure Data Service Member Logon)
- Geographical References supplied by the Office for National Statistics
- Forms

User Agreement
The Secure Data Service User Agreement outlines the terms and conditions of use of the service, is signed by you and a senior member of your institution and is returned before or during training.
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- Presentations and publications

Secure Data Service: Looking forward
Talk given by Karen Dennison at joint Virtual Microdata Laboratory and Secure Data Service workshop, 29 March 2011.
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- ESRC Secure Data Service: A new vision for secure data access
- HMRC Datalab: Engaging with the External Research Community (2011)
- Secure Data Service: An improved access to disclosive data in IASSIST Quarterly Summer 2010
- Presentation to G8 Heads of Research Councils summit - Research Data Sharing in the UK