Summary Microaggregation is a set of procedures that distort empirical data in order to guarantee their factual anonymity. At the same time the information content of data sets should not be reduced too much and should still be useful for scientific research. This paper investigates the effect...

A problem statistical offices are increasingly faced with is guaranteeing confidentiality when releasing microdata sets. One method to provide safe microdata is to reduce the information content of a data set by means of masking procedures. A widely discussed masking procedure is...

Microaggregation is a set of procedures that distort empirical data in order to guarantee their facutal anonymity. At the same time the information content of data sets should not be reduced too much and should still be useful for scientific research. This paper investigates the effect of...