Research Reports

The Fundamental Principles of a Network Flow Disclosure Avoidance System

Colleen M. Sullivan

RR 92/10

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the network flow methodology used to apply complementary suppressions to economic tabular data. We begin in Section 2 with a description of the elemental principles of the network flow method. In Section 3, we present a system of two dimensional tables with "appendages," and we provide concluding remarks in Section 4. A reading section is provided for those interested in more detail.