4 papers
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…
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…
Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics
Kevin L. McKinney, John M. Abowd
We use place of birth information from the Social Security Administration linked to earnings data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program and detailed race and et…
Noisy Measurements Are Important, the Design of Census Products Is Much More Important
John M. Abowd
McCartan et al. (2023) call for "making differential privacy work for census data users." This commentary explains why the 2020 Census Noisy Measurement Files (NMFs) are not the be…