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A Simulated Reconstruction and Reidentification Attack on the 2010 U.S. Census
John M. Abowd, Tamara Adams, Robert Ashmead +12
We show that individual, confidential microdata records from the 2010 U.S. Census of Population and Housing can be accurately reconstructed from the published tabular summaries. Ni…
Assessing Utility of Differential Privacy for RCTs
Kaitlyn R. Webb, Soumya Mukherjee, Aratrika Mustafi +2
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become powerful tools for assessing the impact of interventions and policies in many contexts. They are considered the gold standard for ca…
Reproducibility and Transparency versus Privacy and Confidentiality: Reflections from a Data Editor
Lars Vilhuber
Transparency and reproducibility are often seen in opposition to privacy and confidentiality. Data that need to be kept confidential are seen as an impediment to reproducibility, a…
Teaching for large-scale Reproducibility Verification
Lars Vilhuber, Hyuk Harry Son, Meredith Welch +2
We describe a unique environment in which undergraduate students from various STEM and social science disciplines are trained in data provenance and reproducible methods, and then…
Total Error and Variability Measures for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics in OnTheMap
Kevin L. McKinney, Andrew S. Green, Lars Vilhuber +1
We report results from the first comprehensive total quality evaluation of five major indicators in the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program…
Applying Data Synthesis for Longitudinal Business Data across Three Countries
M. Jahangir Alam, Benoit Dostie, Jörg Drechsler +1
Data on businesses collected by statistical agencies are challenging to protect. Many businesses have unique characteristics, and distributions of employment, sales, and profits ar…
Suboptimal Provision of Privacy and Statistical Accuracy When They are Public Goods
John M. Abowd, Ian M. Schmutte, William Sexton +1
With vast databases at their disposal, private tech companies can compete with public statistical agencies to provide population statistics. However, private companies face differe…