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| Title: | Disclosure Risk Components of Contextualized Microdata: Identifying Unique Geographic Units and the Implications for Pinpointing Survey Respondents |
| Authors: | Witkowski, Kristine M. |
| Keywords: | confidentiality
data dissemination |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | ICPSR Working Papers Series
3 |
| Abstract: | To safely respond to increased demand for microdata that contain contextual information, producers ought to consider how
this data may be used to identify the location of survey respondents. This study informs the design of these datafiles
with its hierarchical matching algorithm and discussion of associated methodological concerns. Compiling nearly 15,000 test datasets composed of person-records, I assess three determinants of “locational” risk, that of identifying the location of
survey respondents whose contextual characteristics: (1) are rarely found among the total population of geographic units; (2) are rarely found within a survey; and (3) pose no disclosure risk given the protection offered by the area’s dense population. Using the “datafile” as my unit of analysis, the proportion of
survey respondents whose locations are easily-reidentified as the outcome of interest, and indicators of different components of this risk, I detail the complexity of reidentification patterns that
emerge when constructing public-use files that provide contextual data. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58627 |
| Appears in Collections: | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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