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Protecting survey data on a consumer level
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Protecting survey data on a consumer level

Matthew J. Schneider and Dawn Iacobucci
Journal of marketing analytics, v 8(1)
01 Mar 2020

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Business Business & Economics Social Sciences
This paper offers an easy-to-implement approach to protect multivariate survey data common in marketing, such as attitudes and demographics. Our approach preserves multivariate distributions by releasing a protected data set with privacy protections. The data represent a highly detailed multivariate survey with severe privacy issues that enables us to demonstrate the tradeoff between data utility and data privacy. We create a data privacy metric that quantifies the ability of a data intruder successfully identify survey respondents and their sensitive responses. We provide data privacy measurements for a variety of competitor methods such as sampling and random noise addition and we show that by comparison, our approach can prevent a data intruder from targeting individuals while maintaining a very high level of data utility.

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