Releasing multiply imputed, synthetic public use microdata: An illustration and empirical study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-205

  Reiter, Jerome P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Disclosure; Microdata; Multiple imputation; Synthetic data

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844284643     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00343.x     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Abowd, J. M. and Woodcock, S. D. (2001) Disclosure limitation in longitudinal linked data. In Confidentiality, Disclosure and Data Access: Theory and Practical Applications for Statistical Agencies (eds P. Doyle, J. Lane, L. Zayatz and J. Theeuwes), pp. 215-277. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
2. Dandekar, R. A., Cohen, M. and Kirkendall, N. (2002a) Sensitive micro data protection using Latin hypercube sampling technique. In Inference Control in Statistical Databases (ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), pp. 117-125. Berlin: Springer.
3. Dandekar, R. A., Domingo-Ferrer, J. and Sebe, F. (2002b) LHS-based hybrid microdata versus rank swapping and microaggregation for numeric microdata protection. In Inference Control in Statistical Databases (ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), pp. 153-162. Berlin: Springer.
4. Duncan, G. T., Keller-McNulty, S. A. and Stokes, S. L. (2001) Disclosure risk vs. data utility: the R-U confidentiality map. Technical Report. Durham: US National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
5. Duncan, G. T. and Mukherjee, S. (2000) Optimal disclosure limitation strategy in statistical databases: deterring tracker attacks through additive noise. J. Am. Statist. Ass., 95, 720-729.
6. Fienberg, S. E., Makov, U. E. and Steele, R. J. (1998) Disclosure limitation using perturbation and related methods for categorical data. J. Off. Statist., 14, 485-502.
7. Franconi, L. and Stander, J. (2002) A model-based method for disclosure limitation of business microdata. Statistician, 51, 51-61.
8. Franconi, L. and Stander, J. (2003) Spatial and non-spatial model-based protection procedures for the release of business microdata. Statist. Comput., 13, 295-306.
9. Fuller, W. A. (1993) Masking procedures for microdata disclosure limitation. J. Off. Statist., 9, 383-406.
10. General Accounting Office (2001) Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information. Washington DC: United States General Accounting Office.
11. Kennickell, A. B. (1997) Multiple imputation and disclosure protection: the case of the 1995 Survey of Consumer Finances. In Record Linkage Techniques, 1997(eds W. Alvey and B. Jamerson), pp. 248-267. Washington DC: National Academy Press.
12. Lavine, M. (1992) Some aspects of Polya tree distributions for statistical modelling. Ann. Statist., 20, 1222-1235.
13. Little, R. J. A. (1993) Statistical analysis of masked data. J. Off. Statist., 9, 407-426.
14. Liu, F. and Little, R. J. A. (2002) Selective multiple imputation of keys for statistical disclosure control in microdata. In Proc. Joint Statistical Meet., pp. 2133-2138. Blacksburg: American Statistical Association.
15. Meng, X.-L. (1994) Multiple-imputation inferences with uncongenial sources of input (with discussion). Statist. Sci., 9, 538-573.
16. Polettini, S. (2003) Maximum entropy simulation for microdata protection. Statist. Comput., 13, 307-320.
17. Polettini, S., Franconi, L. and Stander, J. (2002) Model-based disclosure protection. In Inference Control in Statistical Databases (ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), pp. 83-96. Berlin: Springer.
18. Raghunathan, T. E., Reiter, J. P. and Rubin, D. B. (2003) Multiple imputation for statistical disclosure limitation. J. Off. Statist., 19, 1-16.
19. Reiter, J. P. (2002) Satisfying disclosure restrictions with synthetic data sets. J. Off. Statist., 18, 531-544.
20. Reiter, J. P. (2003) Inference for partially synthetic public use microdata sets. Surv. Methodol, to be published.
21. Rubin, D. B. (1987) Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys. New York: Wiley.
22. Rubin, D. B. (1993) Discussion: Statistical disclosure limitation. J. Off. Statist., 9, 462-468.
23. Willenborg, L. and de Waal, T. (2001) Elements of Statistical Disclosure Control. New York: Springer.
24. Yancey, W. E., Winkler, W. E. and Creecy, R. H. (2002) Disclosure risk assessment in perturbative microdata protection. In Inference Control in Statistical Databases (ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), pp. 135-152. Berlin: Springer.