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JSM 2002 Abstract #300852
Activity Number: 306
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics*
Abstract - #300852
Title: The Feasibility of Releasing Public-Use Synthetic Data Sets
Author(s): Jerome Reiter*+
Affiliation(s): University of California, Santa Barbara
Address: South Hall 5508, UCSB, Goleta, California, 93117, USA
Keywords: Multiple Imputation ; Nondisclosure ; Confidentiality
Abstract:

To balance the competing demands of data access and confidentiality, Rubin proposed creating multiple, synthetic data sets so that (i) no unit in the released data has sensitive data from an actual unit in the population, and (ii) statistical procedures that are valid for the original data are valid for the released data. In this talk, I discuss the feasibility of implementing this approach. I illustrate the approach with simulation studies using data from the Current Population Survey.

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