TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of Differential Privacy to the 2020 U.S. Census and American Community Survey
T2 - 66th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2022
AU - Zhong, Qi
AU - Proctor, Robert W.
AU - Blocki, Jeremiah
AU - Li, Ninghui
AU - Xiong, Aiping
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The U.S. Census and the related American Community Survey (ACS) are used for studies of many types by researchers in a variety of domains. The U.S. Census Bureau discovered that the methods intended to preserve the privacy of individuals used for the 2010 survey were not adequate. Thus, a decision was made to apply differential privacy (DP) to the data from the 2020 Census. DP methods introduce noise into the data set with the intention of allowing the group statistics still to be useful, while protecting the individual data by way of random perturbation. Researchers expressed concern as to how much this application of DP will impact research. We report results of a survey conducted of researchers who published studies based on the 2010 U.S. Census data or the ACS data to assess their understanding of and concerns about DP.
AB - The U.S. Census and the related American Community Survey (ACS) are used for studies of many types by researchers in a variety of domains. The U.S. Census Bureau discovered that the methods intended to preserve the privacy of individuals used for the 2010 survey were not adequate. Thus, a decision was made to apply differential privacy (DP) to the data from the 2020 Census. DP methods introduce noise into the data set with the intention of allowing the group statistics still to be useful, while protecting the individual data by way of random perturbation. Researchers expressed concern as to how much this application of DP will impact research. We report results of a survey conducted of researchers who published studies based on the 2010 U.S. Census data or the ACS data to assess their understanding of and concerns about DP.
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U2 - 10.1177/1071181322661313
DO - 10.1177/1071181322661313
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85204359324
SN - 1071-1813
VL - 66
SP - 2072
EP - 2076
JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
JF - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
IS - 1
Y2 - 10 October 2022 through 14 October 2022
ER -