Census Bureau DP Status Reports

Announcements from the Census Bureau about the development process for the disclosure avoidance system.

Explanation of the statistics being used to measure improvements in the Census Bureau's methodologies.

Proposed tabulations for apportionment, redistricting, demographic profiles, and other 2020 data products, with crosswalks to 2010 data products.


CNSTAT	Committee on National Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences. This external user group is working closely with the Census Bureau to ensure that 2020 Census data products meet a range of use requirements.
DP	Differential Privacy
DAS	Disclosure Avoidance System. A set of privacy-protection strategies, including DP, applied by the Census Bureau to its portfolio of data programs and products.
Epsilon	A mathematical value for the total amount of privacy protection afforded to a database. The higher the value of epsion, the less privacy. Once determined, fractions of epsilon are then allocated to any and all tabulations of the data.
Privacy loss budget	A term for the value and allocation of Epsilon across various geographic levels and population groups. The privacy loss budget must be determined through a deliberative policy process.
the "Spine"	A hierarchy of geographic areas receiving allocations from the privacy loss budget. The nation is at the top of the spine, followed by states, counties, townships, etc.