In September 2020, the Census Bureau announced new confidentiality standards that mark a “sea change for the way that official statistics are produced and published.” 1/
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According to Abowd (2017), database reconstruction “is the death knell for public-use detailed tabulations and microdata sets as they have been traditionally prepared.” 13/
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DP may make tabular data unusable for most applications of small-area data.
DP is not appropriate or feasible for ACS microdata 24/
In September 2018, the Census Bureau announced new confidentiality standards that mark a “sea change for the way that official statistics are produced and published.”