Respondent privacy and estimation efficiency in randomized response surveys for discrete-valued sensitive variables
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Publication:894863
DOI10.1007/S00362-014-0624-4zbMATH Open1327.62057arXiv1303.5172OpenAlexW2011658655MaRDI QIDQ894863FDOQ894863
Authors: Mausumi Bose 
Publication date: 24 November 2015
Published in: Statistical Papers (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In some socio-economic surveys, data are collected on sensitive or stigmatizing issues such as tax evasion, criminal conviction, drug use, etc. In such surveys, direct questioning of respondents is not of much use and the randomized response technique is used instead. A few researchers have studied the issue of privacy protection or respondent jeopardy for surveys on dichotomous populations, where the objective is to estimate the proportion of persons bearing the sensitive trait. However, not much is yet known about respondent protection when the variable under study takes discrete numerical values and the objective of the survey is to estimate the population mean of this variable. In this article we study this issue. We first propose a randomization device for this situation and give the corresponding estimation procedure. We next propose a measure of privacy and show that given a certain stipulated level of this privacy measure, we can determine the parameter of the randomization device so as to maximize the efficiency of estimation, while guaranteeing the desired level of privacy protection. In particular, our study also covers the case of polychotomous populations and we can estimate the proportions of individuals belonging to the different classes. Consequently, results for dichotomous populations follow as corollaries.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5172
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