3 papers
cs.CR2025
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…
stat.AP2025
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…
stat.ME2025
An Approximate Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Estimating Uncertainty and Constructing Confidence Intervals for 2020 Census Statistics
Robert Ashmead, Michael B. Hawes, Mary Pritts +2
To protect the confidentiality of the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau adopted a statistical disclosure limitation framework based on the principles of differential privacy. A k…