Micro-aggregation is a frequently used strategy to anonymize data before they are released to the scientific public. A sample of a continuous random variable is individually micro-aggregated by first sorting and grouping the data into groups of equal size and then replacing the values of the...

The paper explores the effect of multiplicative measurement errors on the estimation of a linear panel data model. Multiplicative errors are often used to minimize disclosure risk of micro data. We use unbiased estimating equations to construct consistent and asymptotically normal estimators.

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...