Identify groups under privacy threshold

This function scans a standard query output for groups with of employees under the privacy threshold. The method consists in reviewing each individual HR attribute, and count the distinct people within each group.

identify_privacythreshold(
  data,
  hrvar = extract_hr(data),
  mingroup = 5,
  return = "table"
)

Arguments

data

A Standard Person Query dataset in the form of a data frame.

hrvar

A list of HR Variables to consider in the scan. Defaults to all HR attributes identified.

mingroup

Numeric value setting the privacy threshold / minimum group size. Defaults to 5.

return

String specifying what to return. This must be one of the following strings:

• "table"

• "text"

See Value for more information.

Value

A different output is returned depending on the value passed to the return

argument:

• "table": data frame. A summary table of groups that fall below the privacy threshold.

• "text": string. A diagnostic message.

Returns a ggplot object by default, where 'plot' is passed in return. When 'table' is passed, a summary table is returned as a data frame.

See also

Other Data Validation: check_query(), extract_hr(), flag_ch_ratio(), flag_em_ratio(), flag_extreme(), flag_outlooktime(), hr_trend(), hrvar_count_all(), hrvar_count(), hrvar_trend(), identify_churn(), identify_holidayweeks(), identify_inactiveweeks(), identify_nkw(), identify_outlier(), identify_query(), identify_shifts_wp(), identify_shifts(), identify_tenure(), remove_outliers(), standardise_pq(), subject_validate_report(), subject_validate(), track_HR_change(), validation_report()

Examples

# Return a summary table
dv_data %>% identify_privacythreshold(return = "table")
#> # A tibble: 29 × 3
#>    hrvar            group                    n
#>    <chr>            <chr>                <int>
#>  1 Organization     IT-East                  1
#>  2 Organization     Financial Planning       2
#>  3 FunctionType     IT                       3
#>  4 Organization     Human Resources          3
#>  5 Organization     G&A Central              3
#>  6 Organization     Inventory Management     4
#>  7 Organization     Finance-South            4
#>  8 Organization     Finance-Corporate        4
#>  9 FunctionType     Sales                    5
#> 10 LevelDesignation Director                 5
#> # … with 19 more rows

# Return a diagnostic message
dv_data %>% identify_privacythreshold(return = "text")
#> [1] "[Warning]  There are 8 groups under the minimum group size privacy threshold of 5."