Measuring Disclosure Risk and an Examination of the Possibilities of Using Synthetic Data in the Individual Income Tax Return Public Use File

Sonya Vartivarian, John L. Czajka and Michael Weber

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Abstract: The Statistics of Income Division (SOI) currently measures disclosure risk through a distance-based technique that compares the public use file (PUF) against the population of all tax returns and uses top-coding, subsampling and multivariate microaggregation as disclosure avoidance techniques.

Keywords: Synthetic Data; Public Use Income Tax Returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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