Differential Privacy & the 2020 U.S. Census Reading List

• J. Abowd, “Protecting the Confidentiality of America’s Statistics: Adopting Modern Disclosure Avoidance Methods at the Census Bureau”, Aug 2018. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2018/08/protecting_the_confi.html.

• J. M. Abowd, “How will statistical agencies operate when all data are private?”, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, vol 7, no 3, 2016.

• J. M. Abowd, “The US Census Bureau adopts differential privacy”, in Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2018, bll 2867–2867.

• R. Jarmin, “Census Bureau Adopts Cutting Edge Privacy Protections for 2020 Census”, Feb 2019. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2019/02/census_bureau_adopts.html.

U.S. Census Bureau handbook on the 2020 DAS

• U.S. Census Bureau, “Disclosure Avoidance for the 2020 Census: An Introduction”, 2021.

U.S. Census Bureau FAQ page on the 2020 DAS

• U.S. Census Bureau, “Disclosure Avoidance: Latest Frequently Asked Questions”, Dec 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planning-management/process/disclosure-avoidance/2020-das-updates/2020-das-faqs.html.

U.S. Census Bureau presentations & products

• M. Hawes, “Understanding the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System: Simulated Reconstruction-Abetted Re-identification Attack on the 2010 Census”, May 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2021/disclosure-avoidance-series/simulated-reconstruction-abetted-re-identification-attack-on-the-2010-census.html.

• M. Hawes, “Understanding the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System: Differential Privacy 101”, May 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2021/disclosure-avoidance-series/differential-privacy-101.html.

• M. Hawes, “Differential Privacy and the 2020 Decennial Census”, Mar 2020. [Online]. Available at: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/Exhibit%20A_Hawes_2021-03-25.pdf.

• R. Rodríguez, “Disclosure Avoidance and the American Community Survey”, May 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://acsdatacommunity.prb.org/m/2021-acs-conference-files/147/download.

• M. Hawes and M. Ratcliffe, “Understanding the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System: Differential Privacy 201 and the TopDown Algorithm”, May 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/about/training-workshops/2021/2021-05-13-das-presentation.pdf.

• U.S. Census Bureau, “2010 Demonstration Data Products”, 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planning-management/process/disclosure-avoidance/2010-demonstration-data-products.html.

Re-identification or reconstruction studies and DAS history

• L. McKenna, “Research and Methodology Directorate: U.S. Census Bureau Reidentification Studies”, United States Census Bureau, 2019.

• M. Hansen, ‘To Reduce Privacy Risks, the Census Plans to Report Less Accurate Data’, The New York Times, 2018. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/upshot/to-reduce-privacy-risks-the-census-plans-to-report-less-accurate-data.html.

• U. S. Census Bureau, “Privacy and Confidentiality: A History of Census Privacy Protections”. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/privacy_confidentiality/privacy_and_confidentiality_2.html.

Summaries of DAS by external organizations

IPUMS

• IPUMS, “CHANGES TO CENSUS BUREAU DATA PRODUCTS”. [Online]. Available at: https://www.ipums.org/changes-to-census-bureau-data-products.

National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)

• Y. Roubideaux and G. Evans-Lomayesva, “The Price of Privacy? 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System Impacts on Tribal Nation Census Data”, May 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn34ZLP_Obg.

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

• National Conference of State Legislatures, “Differential Privacy for Census Data Explained”, Nov 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://www.ncsl.org/research/redistricting/differential-privacy-for-census-data-explained.aspx.

Responses and analyses related to the 2020 DAS

• S. Ruggles and D. Van Riper, “The role of chance in the census bureau database reconstruction experiment”, Population Research and Policy Review, bll 1–8, 2021.

• S. Ruggles, “Twitter Thread”, Aug 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://twitter.com/HistDem/status/1430244071977672709.

• C. T. Kenny, S. Kuriwaki, C. McCartan, E. T. R. Rosenman, T. Simko, and K. Imai, “The use of differential privacy for census data and its impact on redistricting: The case of the 2020 US Census”, Science advances, vol 7, no 41, bl eabk3283, 2021.

• M. Bun et al., “Statistical Inference is Not a Privacy Violation”, Jun 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://differentialprivacy.org/inference-is-not-a-privacy-violation/.

• M. Christ, S. Radway, and S. M. Bellovin, ‘Differential Privacy and Swapping: Examining De-Identification’s Impact on Minority Representation and Privacy Preservation in the US Census’, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2022, pp. 1564–1564.

Public opinion about census participation

Pew Research Center survey study

• D. Cohn, A. Brown, and S. Keeter, “Most Adults Aware of 2020 Census and Ready to Respond, but Don’t Know Key Details”, Pew Research Center, 2020. [Online]. Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/02/20/most-adults-aware-of-2020-census-and-ready-to-respond-but-dont-know-key-details/.

The 2020 Census Barriers, Attitudes, and Motivators Study (CBAMS) Survey

• K. McGeeney et al., “2020 Census Barriers, Attitudes, and Motivators Study Survey Report”, Washington, DC: US Census Bureau, 2019. [Online]. Available at: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planning-management/plan/final-analysis/2020-report-cbams-study-survey.html.

Center for Survey Measurement summary of CBAMS cognitive interviews and other focus group results

• Center for Survey Measurement (CSM), ‘MEMORANDUM FOR Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (ADRM)’, Sept 2017. [Online]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/cac/nac/meetings/2017-11/Memo-Regarding-Respondent-Confidentiality-Concerns.pdf.

The American Community Survey (ACS) and differential privacy

• R. Rodríguez, “Disclosure Avoidance and the American Community Survey”, May 2021. [Online]. Available at: https://acsdatacommunity.prb.org/m/2021-acs-conference-files/147/download.

• IPUMS, ‘CHANGES TO CENSUS BUREAU DATA PRODUCTS’. [Online]. Available at: https://www.ipums.org/changes-to-census-bureau-data-products.