A brief overview of methods for synthetic data for official statistics

Abstract

The access of quality data is valuable, and there is an increased attention to sharing data within the public sector and to other actors. Synthesising the data can be a way that satisfies both the requirements of preserving information value and privacy, which is necessary to enable efficient and safe data sharing. We give a summary of important references, relevant for Statistics Norway and other national statistics institutes, for generating synthetic data for (essentially) statistical purposes.