Spatial and non-spatial model-based protection procedures for the release of business microdata |
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Authors: | Franconi Luisa Stander Julian |
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Institution: | (1) ISTAT, Servizio della Metodologia di Base per la Produzione Statistica, Via Cesare Balbo 16, 00184 Roma, Italy;(2) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK |
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Abstract: | In this paper we discuss methodology for the safe release of business microdata. In particular we extend the model-based protection procedure of Franconi and Stander (2002, The Statistician 51: 1–11) by allowing the model to take account of the spatial structure underlying the geographical information in the microdata. We discuss the use of the Gibbs sampler for performing the computations required by this spatial approach. We provide an empirical comparison of these non-spatial and spatial disclosure limitation methods based on the Italian sample from the Community Innovation Survey. We quantify the level of protection achieved for the released microdata and the error induced when various inferences are performed. We find that although the spatial method often induces higher inferential errors, it almost always provides more protection. Moreover the aggregated areas from the spatial procedure can be somewhat more spatially smooth, and hence possibly more meaningful, than those from the non-spatial approach. We discuss possible applications of these model-based protection procedures to more spatially extensive data sets. |
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Keywords: | Community Innovation Survey conditional autoregressive scheme confidentiality Gibbs sampler performance assessment for disclosure limitation methods |
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