Differentially Private Release of Israel's National Registry of Live Births

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In February 2024, Israel's Ministry of Health released microdata of live births in Israel in 2014.

• The dataset is based on Israel's National Registry of Live Births and offers substantial value in multiple areas, such as scientific research and policy-making, while providing pure differential privacy guarantee with $\varepsilon = 9.98$ for 2014's mothers and newborns.
• The release was co-designed by the authors along with stakeholders from both inside and outside the Ministry of Health.
• This paper presents the methodology used to obtain that release, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first of its kind in the world.