A plan to protect the confidentiality of responses to the 2020 census is raising concerns that it will erode their usability for research and distribution of state and federal funds
A plan to protect the confidentiality of Americans’ responses to the 2020 census by injecting small, calculated distortions into the results is raising concerns that it will erode their usability for research and distribution of state and federal funds.
The Census Bureau is due to release the first major results of the decennial count in mid-August. They will offer the first detailed look at the population and racial makeup of thousands of counties and cities, as well as tribal areas, neighborhoods, school districts and smaller areas that will be usedThe bureau will adjust most of those statistics to prevent someone from recombining them in a way that would disclose information about an individual respondent.
Last week the bureau’s acting director said the plan was a necessary update of older methods to protect confidentiality. Ron Jarmin said the agency searched for alternatives before, a systematic approach to add statistical noise to data, something it has done in some fashion for years. “I’m pretty confident that it’s going to meet users’ expectations,” Mr. Jarmin said at a panel during an online conference of government data users. “We have to deal with the technology as it is and as it evolves.”
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