Utility Cost of Formal Privacy for Releasing National Employer-Employee Statistics
Samuel Haney, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, John Maron Abowd, MATTHEW H. GRAHAM, Mark Kutzbach, Lars Vilhuber · 2017
National statistical agencies around the world publish tabular summaries based on combined employer-employee (ER-EE) data. The privacy of both individuals and business establishments that feature in these data are protected by law in most countries. These data are currently released using a variety of statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) techniques that do not reveal the exact characteristics of particular employers and employees, but lack provable privacy guarantees limiting inferential disclosures.