μ-ARGUS is a free software program designed to create safe microdata files. The tool has been designed initially as an aid to achieve statistical disclosure control at Statistics Netherlands.
The aim of statistical disclosure control is to limit the risk that sensitive information of individual respondents can be disclosed from data that are released to third party users. In case of a microdata set, i.e. a set of records containing information on individual respondents, such a disclosure of sensitive information of an individual respondent can occur after this respondent has been re-identified. That is, after it has been deduced which record corresponds to this particular individual. So, the aim of disclosure control should help to hamper re-identification of individual respondents represented in data to be published.
