Woodcock, Simon and Benedetto, Gary (2006): Distribution-Preserving Statistical Disclosure Limitation.
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Abstract
One approach to limiting disclosure risk in public-use microdata is to release multiply-imputed, partially synthetic data sets. These are data on actual respondents, but with confidential data replaced by multiply-imputed synthetic values. A mis-specified imputation model can invalidate inferences because the distribution of synthetic data is completely determined by the model used to generate them. We present two practical methods of generating synthetic values when the imputer has only limited information about the true data generating process. One is applicable when the true likelihood is known up to a monotone transformation. The second requires only limited knowledge of the true likelihood, but nevertheless preserves the conditional distribution of the confidential data, up to sampling error, on arbitrary subdomains. Our method maximizes data utility and minimizes incremental disclosure risk up to posterior uncertainty in the imputation model and sampling error in the estimated transformation. We validate the approach with a simulation and application to a large linked employer-employee database.
Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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Original Title: | Distribution-Preserving Statistical Disclosure Limitation |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | statistical disclosure limitation; confidentiality; privacy; multiple imputation; partially synthetic data |
Subjects: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access |
Item ID: | 155 |
Depositing User: | Simon Woodcock |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2006 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2019 05:05 |
URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/155 |