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A NOTE ON PROTECTION OF PRIVACY IN RANDOMIZED RESPONSE DEVICES

SAHA AMITAVA (Directorate General of Mines Safety)

Publication Information

Journal of the Korean Statistical Society / v.34, no.4, 2005 , pp. 297-309 More about this Journal

Abstract

We consider 'efficiency versus privacy-protection' problem concerned with several well-known randomized response (RR) devices to estimate proportion of people bearing a stigmatizing characteristic in a community. The literature of RR on respondent's privacy protection discusses only about response specific jeopardy measures. We propose a measure of jeopardy that is independent of the RR offered by the interviewee and recommend it for using as a technical characteristic of the RR device. For ensuring better cooperation from the interviewees this new measure that depends only on the design parameters of the RR devices may be disclosed to the respondents before producing the RR by implementing the randomization device.

Keywords

Measure of jeopardy; protection of privacy; prior and posterior probabilities; unequal probability sampling.;

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