Harmonizing table protection: results of a study

  • Authors:
  • Sarah Giessing;Stefan Dittrich

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Wiesbaden;Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Wiesbaden

  • Venue:
  • PSD'06 Proceedings of the 2006 CENEX-SDC project international conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The paper reports results of a study aimed at the development of recommendations for harmonization of table protection in the German statistical system. We compare the performance of a selection of algorithms for secondary cell suppression under four different models for co-ordination of cell suppressions across agencies of a distributed system for official statistics, like the German or the European statistical system. For the special case of decentralized across-agency co-ordination as used in the European Statistical System, the paper also suggests a strategy to protect the data on the top level of the regional breakdown by perturbative methods rather than cell suppression.