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What current methods for statistical disclosure limitation are best trade-offs between data privacy and data utility?

In many situations raw microdata is not released by institutions due to privacy preserving. Many techniques are used for protecting sensitive values in data. But many of them can destroy multivariate ...
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Steps for Regression when subscales (based on survey responses)are present in IND and DEP variable

I am looking to run regression against 5 Independant variables (each comprised of 4-6 subscale survey items) and a Dependant Variable (comprised of 3 subscale survey questions in Likert Fashion). I ...
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Acceptable scores on a survey

I want to know what per cent is acceptable in a training survey? If we get scores of 77% satisfaction of our materials is that acceptable, good, poor?
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Coding “Don't know” in Stata

I am coding a questionnaire on STATA and there is a question about Father Education with the option "Don't know" at the end. I am not sure how to code it, because I don't want to count it as missing ...
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How do I clean up inconsistent survey data?

I have some survey response data that are inconsistent and I'm not sure what is the best way to handle them. This is the nature of the inconsistency: Have you ever had a food poisoning episode ...
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I want to combine many representative surveys in my analysis. What should I know?

This is, unfortunately, something I was never exposed to as an undergraduate or in my PhD core (economics). As an example, suppose I'm looking at three well-known nationally representative surveys: ...
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Estimating the number of registered interaction designers in a given territory

I plan to conduct a research study about Interaction Designers. Prior to starting on sampling methods I am finding it very hard to get my hands on some demographics and statistics, e.g. How many ...
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Assessing the representativeness of population sampling

I am looking for some suggestions about assessing the representativeness of a particular dataset I am analyzing. In this dataset I am looking at the relationship between two variables (e.g., X and ...
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Where is a good place to find survey results?

Sites like eMarketer offer general survey results about internet usage. Who else has a big set of survey results, or regularly releases them? Preferably marketing research focused. Thanks!