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Differential Privacy and Survey Sampling

Published: June 17, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2506.14620v1

By: Daniel Bernard Bonnéry, Julien Jamme

Potential Business Impact:

Protects private data when counting people.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

The Horvitz-Thompson estimate of a total can be seen as as differentially private mechanism applied to this population total. We provide forumlae to compute the $\epsilon$ and $\delta$ parameter for this specific mecanism, coupled or not coupled with the addition of a Laplace or a Gaussian noise. This allows to determine the scale of the Laplace privacy mechanism to be added to reach a specified level of privacy, expressed in terms of $\epsilon,\delta$ differential privacy. In particular, we provide simple formulae for the special case of simple random sampling on binary data.

Country of Origin
🇫🇷 France

Page Count
22 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Statistics Theory