The synthesis procedure involves taking random draws of households and replicating them. This synthesis process results in large numbers of identical households. That is not realistic and may create issues in the development of privacy algorithms. Alternatively, each household could be modified to have random noise. For example, for each household could be perturbed to an adjacent household—by randomly adding or removing an individual, or by modifying an attribute, such as an age or a relationship to Person 1.
The synthesis procedure involves taking random draws of households and replicating them. This synthesis process results in large numbers of identical households. That is not realistic and may create issues in the development of privacy algorithms. Alternatively, each household could be modified to have random noise. For example, for each household could be perturbed to an adjacent household—by randomly adding or removing an individual, or by modifying an attribute, such as an age or a relationship to Person 1.