Violation of respondent's privacy in moors* model- its rectification through a random group strategy

Abstract

The primary objective of the randomized response techniques introduced by Warner (1965) and Greenberg et al. (1969) was to protect the privacy of the respondents while eliciting information on sensitive issues. However, Moors' (1971) model, which is considered to be the best in the sense of optimality and convenience to use, fails to protect the privacy of respondents in certain cases. The present paper aims at pointing out this serious draw back. An alternative model termed as 'random group method ' is proposed. The proposed model is free from the above mentioned drawback and provides more efficient estimator as compared to the usual Greenberg at al. 's (1969) model.

Keywords:

• simple random sampling
• estimation of proportion
• sensitive variable
• randomized response technique
• response confidentiality
• unrelated question model
• random group method