Achieving Data Quality in a Statistical Agency: A Methodological Perspective DISCLOSURE AUDITING IN ROUNDED TABLES
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It is customary for statistical agencies to audit tables containing suppressed cells to ensure that there is sufficient protection against inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information. If the table contains rounded values, this fact may be ignored by the audit procedure. This oversight can result in over-protection, reducing the utility of the published data. In this paper, we provide a correct auditing formulation, and give examples of over-protection.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002