2020 Census data products
Review of U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 Demonstration Data Products
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Review of U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 Demonstration Data Products
Simple online app comparing population characteristics with and without Differential Privacy processing.
Find it here: https://shiny.demog.berkeley.edu/eddieh/DP2010DemoData_CA/
Letter on Differential Privacy and the Impacts on Public Data Products
The steering committees of the Census Information Centers (CIC), Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates (FSCPE), and State Data Centers (SDC) transmitted a letter, on Nov. 27, 2019, to Census Director Dillingham. This letter outlines our questions and concerns regarding the Census Bureau’s move to a new Differential Privacy Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS).
The following is the Census Bureau’s response dated February 26, 2020:
The following is the Census Bureau’s response dated June 24, 2020:
Webinar: 2020 Census demonstration data: Privacy and accuracy issues, Dec. 4
When: Wed., December 4, 2:00 Eastern (11:00 Pacific). The webinar will be 90 minutes.
You can view the webinar recording here.
Presentation slidedecks are now available:
- Census implementing new disclosure avoidance methods with 2020 Census public data products (Beth Jarosz)
- Overview of Differential Privacy, effects on data accuracy, examples based on Census’s decennial demonstration data tables (David Van Riper)
- Proposed data products, what tables will be available (Jan Vink)
- How you can review the demonstration data tables now online (Beth and Jan)
- Suggested next steps, and opportunities for feedback (Todd Graham)
Presenters for this webinar are:
- Jan Vink, research specialist at Cornell Program on Applied Demographics
- Dave Van Riper, spatial analysis director at Univ of Minnesota Population Center
- Beth Jarsoz, demographer at Population Reference Bureau
- Todd Graham, principal demographer at Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities.
Thanks to Jenn Shultz, Pennsylvania State Data Center for hosting this webinar meeting.
New decennial census demonstration data with differential privacy treatment
From US Census Bureau, Customer Liaison & Marketing Services Office:
In a new Research Matters blog, Balancing Privacy and Accuracy: New Opportunity for Disclosure Avoidance Analysis, we discuss the just-posted new 2010 Demonstration Data Products designed to help data users better understand the 2020 Census disclosure avoidance system (DAS) and its impact on data quality and privacy protection.
You can access the data via the new 2020 Census Data Products page on census.gov. You can also get there by searching “2020 data products” from the census.gov home page.
Please note that the data are only released via the FTP and in summary file format. Data will not be released on data.census.gov. As a data intermediary, you may be asked to provide or extract data in a different format. So we encourage you to take a look at the summary file format to become familiar with the data.
Data user feedback will help the Census Bureau’s senior leadership make informed decisions about the final structure of 2020 data products and the fine-tuning of the disclosure avoidance system. Because decennial census data are widely used in ways that go beyond the Census Bureau’s needs, we want to ensure that they are fit for as many data users’ needs as possible. Feedback on the demonstration files should be sent to dcmd.2010.demonstration.data.products@census.gov
Please note that there will be a live Webcast of a National Academy of Sciences Center for National Statistics (CNSTAT) workshop on this topic on December 11-12, 2019. We’ll post more information on our Web site closer to the date.
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