Attribute information has great potential to improve the performance of data association algorithmand has become one of the research tendencies on information data association for multipassivesensor.The application of attribute information in data association problems for multipassivesensor was summarized.The research development of data association problems based on attribute information was analyzed.The problem models of attribute information application were formulatedand association rules based on the statistic method and uncertainty reasoning were given.Then processing structure models of attribute information applied in multipassivesensor data association were summarizedand their advantages and disadvantages were presented as well.Finallyseveral key issues to be solved in the future were pointed out.