Measures of Respondent Privacy in Randomized Response Surveys
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
Handbook of Statistics
Abstract
Socioeconomic surveys are often done on highly personal and sensitive or stigmatizing issues. In such surveys randomized response techniques are popular, as opposed to direct questions, since these techniques do not require a respondent to disclose his true status. Though it is evident that these techniques protect the privacy of a respondent in general, the quantum of protection available from such techniques, vis-á-vis the estimation efficiency, is also of interest. Some researchers have focused on this aspect and measures of jeopardy are available for situations where the sensitive variable is qualitative and the objective is to estimate the proportion of persons in the population who belong to the sensitive group. Measures of privacy protection are also available for cases where the variable of interest is quantitative, both for discrete and continuous variables. In this chapter, some of the available measures of privacy protection will be described.
First Page
341
Last Page
351
DOI
10.1016/bs.host.2016.01.019
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Recommended Citation
Bose, M., "Measures of Respondent Privacy in Randomized Response Surveys" (2016). Book Chapters. 241.
https://digitalcommons.isical.ac.in/book-chapters/241
