What are the rules used for masking report data?
The Guiding Principle Of Confidentiality, embodied in the language of the letter of agreement among AMT, AMTDA, and Objectware Inc. states: “no one should be able to use these reports to identify a company involved in any transaction.” To ensure this level of confidentiatlity, masking of report data is applied in the following manner: Press release reports: No masking all units and dollar values are disclosed. All other reports: No masking for units all numbers will be disclosed For dollar value data points the 3/40/5 rule will function as follows: ->A minimum of 3 companies must report transactions for each data point, AND ->If one company accounts for more than 40% of the dollars reported, then the number will not be disclosed; OR ->If 5 or more companies report transactions, then the number will be disclosed. There may be cases of non disclosure of some dollar values, in order to prevent someone from determining the value of a single data point which has not been disclosed, per the
