The 2020 Census and Confidentiality

Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method

Prominent demographers are asking the US Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants' confidentiality.

Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census: How the TopDown ...

Census Bureau uses differential privacy on some of our published data products. It forms the foundation of the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) ...

The U.S. Census Bureau Adopts Differential Privacy

Abstract. The U.S. Census Bureau announced, via its Scientific Advisory Committee, that it would protect the publications of the 2018 End-to-End Census Test ( ...

U.S. Census data | USAGov

To protect people's privacy, all personal information collected by the census is confidential for 72 years. Find Census data. Use Census ...

Disclosure Avoidance in the 2020 Census - NCBI

The problem of becoming too fixated on privacy-accuracy trade-offs in this specific implementation is that the Census Bureau continues to improve on the TDA's ...

Implementing Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census - USENIX

The US 2020 Census of Population and Housing will mark the first time that differential privacy will be used for its existential purpose.

Balancing Data Utility and Confidentiality in the 2020 US Census

As the Census Bureau prepares to enumerate the population of the United States in 2020, the bureau's leadership has announced that there will ...

Census Bureau Sets Key Parameters to Protect Privacy in 2020 ...

Census Bureau Sets Key Parameters to Protect Privacy in 2020 Census Results · Census Bureau releases PPMFs and Detailed Summary Metrics from ...

Changes to Census Bureau Data Products | IPUMS

DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN THE 2020 CENSUS. The Census Bureau has already begun using a new disclosure avoidance system for the summary files of the 2020 Census.

The Use of Differential Privacy for Census Data and its Impact on ...

The US Census Bureau plans to protect the privacy of 2020 Census respondents through its Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS), which attempts to achieve ...

The 2020 Census Suggests That People Live Underwater. There's a ...

On the one hand, federal law mandates that census records remain private for 72 years. That guarantee has been crucial to persuading many people ...

2020 Census and FERPA - Protecting Student Privacy

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or FERPA provides certain rights for parents regarding their children's education records. This guide provides ...

Census Privacy and Confidentiality It's Important. It's Easy. It's Safe.

The Census Bureau will never share individual census records with anyone or any other government agency. Title 13 of the US Code protects ...

Important Information about the 2020 Census and Confidentiality

Your responses to the 2020 Census are safe, secure, and protected by federal law. Your answers can only be used to produce statistics—they ...

Enhanced Privacy Protections Delay the Release of Census Data

In 2020, we experienced significant delays in the receipt of census data. This is largely due to an updated privacy protection model, ...

Ethics and the Census - U.S. Census Data for Research

The tenet of protecting the privacy of individual survey respondents is what the Census refers to as disclosure avoidance. The 2020 Census is ...

Differential Privacy & the 2020 Census: Ask a Data Privacy Expert

Cohen: Differential privacy is a family of mathematical definitions for quantifying and controlling the amount of individual-level information ...

The Census Confidentiality Protection Pledge:

that protection of census data confidentiality is essential to a successful Census ... confidentiality of data collected as part of the 2020 ...

Differential Privacy and the 2020 Decennial Census

This presentation includes work by the Census Bureau's 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System development team, Census Bureau colleagues, ...

Census 2020: Litigation, Data Confidentiality, and Getting Out the ...

The results of the 2020 census will determine the apportionment of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives for the upcoming decade.