20

Nov

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Census Bureau Director Says “Processing Anomalies” will Delay Census Data Release Schedule

By Editor

On November 19th the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau released a short statement acknowledging "certain processing anomalies" in the decennial census data collected earlier this year. While the director…

14

Sep

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Washington State Data Office: Privacy Protected Census Data it Sampled is “Unfit” to Use

By Michelle Davis

"The majority of the data output from the DAS [disclosure avoidance system] appears to be unfit for most uses." Is how a letter to the Census Bureau's Disclosure Avoidance Team…

13

Sep

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Watch: House Committee Holds Hearing on Census Timeline

By Editor

On September 10, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on the status of the Census Bureau's operations in light of Covid-19 delays and other challenges. The…

08

Sep

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What Does Differential Privacy in Census Data Mean for the Task of Redistricting?

By Michelle Davis

The law requires that any identifying information you give the Census Bureau be kept confidential for 75 yrs, but simply removing your information from what is published is no longer…

01

Sep

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Understanding the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance Policy. A.K.A. “Differential Privacy”

By Michelle Davis

The Census Bureau is mandated by the U.S. constitution to complete a count of the population every decade. Few realize however, that Title 13, Sec. 9 of the U.S. Code…

05

Feb

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Watch: A Mathematical Measurement of Partisan Gerrymandering

By Michelle Davis

. Researchers at Duke University do a good job explaining their quantitative analysis of North Carolina’s congressional redistricting maps in lay terms. In this video they present fairly solid statistical…