Use of microdata is severely hampered in many areas of research. This is in particular true for data from statistical offices. One way to circumvent this problem is to anonymize the data such that both confidentiality is guaranteed and informational content of the data is not to much distorted...

"Providing scientific use files for business surveys is a difficult task. Due to smaller populations, higher sampling rates, and skewed distributions disclosure risks are much higher than for household surveys. Simple measures like coarsening are not sufficient to protect the data. The aim of...