WP. 36 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS

WP.14 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EUROSTAT)

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The concept of differential privacy has received considerable attention in the literature recently. In this paper we evaluate the masking mechanism based on Laplace noise addition to satisfy differential privacy. The results of this study indicate that the Laplace based noise addition procedure does not satisfy the requirements of differential privacy.

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WP.2 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EUROSTAT)

The European Union is facing the problem of releasing microdata in a multinational setting i.e. microdata stemming from twenty seven member states. Different laws, methodologies, practices and cultural approaches to confidentiality may severely limit the possibility of obtaining comprehensive anonymised data sets. We recall the approach adopted in Europe to design and manage harmonised statisti...

WP No. 26 ENGLISH ONLY UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS

This paper describes a method for imputation in general contingency tables when the imputations are subject to both analytic (edit) constraints and probabilistic distributional constraints. The model extends edit ideas in Fellegi and Holt (1976) and Winkler and Chen (2002). The model extends missing-at-random imputation ideas in Little and Rubin (1987). Some of the ideas are related to Friedman...