spss-sav-pseudonymization

A command line utility that replaces numeric identifiers in a given SAV file column with randomly chosen numbers using a UUID generator. Output of this program is a new SAV file and a file containing the mapping between old and pseudonymised numbers. This mapping can be reused by pointing to it via an input parameter.

Running the installation as documented below should add a new entry point to the Python installation scripts directory, though you might have to add that to your $PATH or %PATH% (on Windows).

Installation

To install spss-sav-pseudonymization and all dependencies into your Python environment, run:

$   pip install spss-sav-pseudonymization

or..

$   pip install -r requirements.txt
$   python setup.py install

Note

Depending on your platform, you have to configure SavReaderWriter with some additional steps. See here for its documentation.

Requirements

These dependencies will have to be installed:

• savReaderWriter==3.4.2
• click==6.7

Example usage

$   pseudonymise --help

$   pseudonymise </path/to/sav-file>

$   pseudonymise </path/to/sav-file> --columns 0,4

$   pseudonymise </path/to/sav-file> --names Identifier,SecondIdentifier

$   pseudonymise </path/to/sav-file> --mapping-file <path/to/mapping-file>

Licence

GPLv3