When Privacy Protection Goes Wrong: How and Why the 2020 Census Confidentiality Program Failed

S Ruggles - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Abstract The US Census Bureau implemented a new disclosure control strategy for the 2020
Census that adds deliberate error to every population statistic for every geographic unit …

Impacts of census differential privacy for small-area disease mapping to monitor health inequities

Y Li, BA Coull, N Krieger, E Peterson, LA Waller… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The US Census Bureau will implement a modernized privacy-preserving disclosure
avoidance system (DAS), which includes application of differential privacy, on publicly …

Population Redistribution Trends in Nonmetropolitan America, 2010 to 2021

KM Johnson - Rural Sociology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Given the turbulent conditions of the early 21st century and the release of data from the 2020
Census, it is an appropriate time to examine contemporary population redistribution trends …

“It's None of Their Damn Business”: Privacy and Disclosure Control in the US Census, 1790–2020

S Ruggles, DL Magnuson - Population and Development …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The US Census has grappled with public concerns about privacy since the first enumeration
in 1790. Beginning in the mid‐nineteenth century, census officials began responding to …

Cost of living variation, nonmetropolitan America, and implications for the supplemental poverty measure

JT Mueller, MM Brooks, JD Pacas - Population Research and Policy …, 2022 - Springer
Poverty scholarship in the United States is increasingly reliant upon the Supplemental
Poverty Measure (SPM) as opposed to the Official Poverty Measure of the United States for …

A Note on the Misinterpretation of the US Census Re-identification Attack

P Francis - International Conference on Privacy in Statistical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract In 2018, the US Census Bureau designed a new data reconstruction and re-
identification attack and tested it against their 2010 data release. The specific attack …

Towards more accurate and useful data anonymity vulnerability measures

P Francis, D Wagner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06595, 2024 - arxiv.org
The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the
data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. There is a large body of work that …

[图书][B] Big Data and Human-Environment Systems

SM Manson - 2023 - books.google.com
Transformation of the Earth's social and ecological systems is occurring at a rate and
magnitude unparalleled in human experience. Data science is a revolutionary new way to …

Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum

C Dwork, K Greenewald, M Raghavan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.10095, 2024 - arxiv.org
The US Decennial Census provides valuable data for both research and policy purposes.
Census data are subject to a variety of disclosure avoidance techniques prior to release in …

Evaluating the Accuracy of 2020 Census Block-Level Estimates in California

R Bozick, LF Burgette, E Sharygin, RA Shih… - …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
In this study, we provide an assessment of data accuracy from the 2020 Census. We
compare block-level population totals from a sample of 173 census blocks in California …