Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data

Table 2 Summary statistics of continuous variables in the original confidential population and in the synthetic population

Variables	Original confidential population				Synthetic population
Variables	Mean	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis	Mean	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis
Property	50.49	30.18	− 0.11	− 1.25	49.76	29.67	− 0.04	− 1.24
Income	59.43	27.39	− 0.44	− 0.85	58.41	27.85	− 0.43	− 0.93
Age^a	40.29	22.96	0.075	− 0.93	40.29	22.96	0.075	− 0.93

^aThe original population contained 9756 subjects not included in the synthetic population due to missing data

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