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Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy INNOVATIONS IN FEDERAL STATISTICS Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods Robert M. Groves and Brian A. Harris-Kojetin, Editors Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education A Report of Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 This activity was supported by a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Founda- tion with additional support from the National Academy of Sciences Kellogg Fund. 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Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy PANEL ON IMPROVING FEDERAL STATISTICS FOR POLICY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH USING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES AND STATE-OF-THE-ART ESTIMATION METHODS ROBERT M. GROVES (Chair), Provost, Georgetown University MICHAEL E. CHERNEW, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School PIET DAAS, Department of Corporate Services, Information Technology, and Methodology, Statistics Netherlands CYNTHIA DWORK, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University OPHIR FRIEDER, Department of Computer Sciences, Georgetown University HOSAGRAHAR V. JAGADISH, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan FRAUKE KREUTER, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, and Statistics and Methodology, University of Mannheim and Institute for Employment Research SHARON LOHR, Vice President, Westat, Rockville, Maryland JAMES P. LYNCH, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland COLM O’MUIRCHEARTAIGH, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago TRIVELLORE RAGHUNATHAN, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan ROBERTO RIGOBON, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MARC ROTENBERG, President, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, DC BRIAN HARRIS-KOJETIN, Study Director HERMANN HABERMANN, Senior Program Officer GEORGE SCHOEFFEL, Research Assistant AGNES GASKIN, Administrative Assistant v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS LAWRENCE D. BROWN (Chair), Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania FRANCINE BLAU, Department of Economics, Cornell University MARY ELLEN BOCK, Department of Statistics (Emerita), Purdue University MICHAEL CHERNEW, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School JANET CURRIE, Department of Economics, Princeton University DONALD DILLMAN, Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, Washington State University CONSTANTINE GATSONIS, Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University JAMES S. HOUSE, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan THOMAS MESENBOURG, U.S. Census Bureau (Retired) SUSAN MURPHY, Department of Statistics and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan SARAH NUSSER, Office of the Vice President for Research, Iowa State University COLM O’MUIRCHEARTAIGH, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago RUTH PETERSON, Criminal Justice Research Center, Ohio State University ROBERTO RIGOBON, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology EDWARD SHORTLIFFE, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University and Arizona State University CONSTANCE F. CITRO, Director BRIAN HARRIS-KOJETIN, Deputy Director vi Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy Acknowledgments his report of the Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State- Tof-the-Art Estimation Methods is the product of contributions from many colleagues, whom we thank for their generous sharing of their time and expertise. The panel is grateful to the Laura and John Arnold Foundation for funding this study, and to foundation staff Stuart Buck and Meredith McPhail for their help and guidance throughout the study. The panel also is grateful for the supplemental funding provided by the National