In the case described here, it is almost certainly the case that the children interviewed, and their parents, would have been assured that while the researchers would of course eventually make public
the aggregate results of their research, the raw data — the interview transcripts that Philip Morris seems to be seeking — would of course be kept confidential.
Generally, the
results of the analysis that
results in the exclusion
of individual proxies, or entire
aggregates of a sampling
of the relevant population are rarely included in published
research, nor are the
results of the analysis provided for data sets that include the (would be) excluded data, even though this are routinely calculated when performing exploratory data analysis.