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The U.S. Census Bureau collects its survey and census data under Title 13 of the U. S. code, which promises to protect the confidentiality of our respondents. The agency has the responsibility to release high quality data products without violating the confidentiality of our respondents. This paper discuses a Microdata Analysis System (MAS) that is currently under development at the Census Bureau. We begin by discussing the reason for developing a MAS, and answer some questions about the MAS. We next give a brief overview of the MAS and the confidentiality rules within the system. The rest of this paper gives an overview of the evaluation of the universe subsampling routine in the MAS known as the Drop Q Rule. We conclude with some remarks on future research.
This report is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encourage discussion of work in progress. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Lucero, J., Zayatz, L. (2010). The Microdata Analysis System at the U.S. Census Bureau. In: Domingo-Ferrer, J., Magkos, E. (eds) Privacy in Statistical Databases. PSD 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6344. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15838-4_21
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