14:30 - 15:30
STS03: Protection of Privacy in Public Surveys
Special Topic Session
Room: Hegelsaal II
Organiser/s:
Maurizio Vichi
Chair: Tasos Christofides, ESAC

The large number of surveys conducted by public or private organizations increases response burden and as a result nonresponse rates are reaching alarming levels. In particular when the issues under investigation are stigmatizing or sensitive, many people choose not to participate, or provide untruthful and misleading responses. One way to solve the problem is to implement indirect questioning techniques. These are techniques, which generate data from which the researcher is able to estimate parameters of interest, while at the same time they cannot infer whether a specific respondent has the stigmatizing or sensitive characteristic. A central issue in these techniques is protecting the privacy of participants and to what extent their privacy is protected. The session will put emphasis on various aspects of the protection of privacy in public surveys including the protection of privacy from the respondent’s point of view.
Th-STS03-01
Andreas Quatember
Johannes Kepler University JKU Linz, Linz, Austria
Th-STS03-02
Pier Francesco Perri
Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance – University of Calabria, Italy, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
Th-STS03-03
Mark Trappmann 1, 2, Ivar Krumpal 3, Antje Kirchner 4, Ben Jann 5
1 IAB, Nuremberg, Germany, 2 University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany, 3 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 4 RTI, Research Traingle Park, United States, 5 University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland