By William P. O’Hare (Consultant to the Count All Kids Campaign) and Ron Prevost (Senior Vice President for Demographic Analysis, Demographic Analytics Advisors)
Standard Deviations blog posts represent the views of the author/organization, but not necessarily those of The Census Project.
The Census Bureau applied a new Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) in the 2020 Census called Differential Privacy or DP. One of the implications of that new system is the production of many implausible or impossible census results. This paper focuses on one such situation, namely census blocks where there are children (population under age 18) but no adults (population ages 18 and older). In this paper, these are called “child-only blocks.”
After describing the distribution of child-only blocks, we provide an explanation of how Differential Privacy creates so many child-only blocks compared to the process to the privacy protection method used in the 2010 Census (swapping).
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STANDARD DEVIATIONS: Distribution of Census Blocks with Children and No Adults in the 2020 Census
By William P. O’Hare (Consultant to the Count All Kids Campaign) and Ron Prevost (Senior Vice President for Demographic Analysis, Demographic Analytics Advisors)
Standard Deviations blog posts represent the views of the author/organization, but not necessarily those of The Census Project.
The Census Bureau applied a new Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) in the 2020 Census called Differential Privacy or DP. One of the implications of that new system is the production of many implausible or impossible census results. This paper focuses on one such situation, namely census blocks where there are children (population under age 18) but no adults (population ages 18 and older). In this paper, these are called “child-only blocks.”
After describing the distribution of child-only blocks, we provide an explanation of how Differential Privacy creates so many child-only blocks compared to the process to the privacy protection method used in the 2010 Census (swapping).
Click here to read the full article.
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