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SafeTab-P: Disclosure Avoidance for the 2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A)

Sam Haney, Skye Berghel, Bayard Carlson +11

This article describes the disclosure avoidance algorithm that the U.S. Census Bureau used to protect the Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A) o…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

Disclosure Avoidance for the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File

Ryan Cumings-Menon, Robert Ashmead, Daniel Kifer +4

In "The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm," Abowd et al. (2022) describe the concepts and methods used by the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) to produce f…

cs.CR2023★ 13 cited

An In-Depth Examination of Requirements for Disclosure Risk Assessment

Ron S. Jarmin, John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead +11

The use of formal privacy to protect the confidentiality of responses in the 2020 Decennial Census of Population and Housing has triggered renewed interest and debate over how to m…

cs.CR2022★ 10 cited

Bayesian and Frequentist Semantics for Common Variations of Differential Privacy: Applications to the 2020 Census

Daniel Kifer, John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead +5

The purpose of this paper is to guide interpretation of the semantic privacy guarantees for some of the major variations of differential privacy, which include pure, approximate, R…

cs.CR2022★ 4 cited

Geographic Spines in the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System

Ryan Cumings-Menon, John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead +5

The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) is a formally private mechanism that first adds independent noise to cross tabulations for a set of pre-specified hierarchical geo…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

An Uncertainty Principle is a Price of Privacy-Preserving Microdata

John Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Ryan Cumings-Menon +7

Privacy-protected microdata are often the desired output of a differentially private algorithm since microdata is familiar and convenient for downstream users. However, there is a…