The Microdata Analysis System at the U.S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau has the responsibility to release high quality data products while maintaining the confidentiality promised to all respondents under Title 13 of the U.S. Code. This paper describes a Microdata Analysis System (MAS) that is currently under development, which will allow users to...
| Autores: | , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/11379 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2099/11379 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mathematical statistics Statistical disclosure limitation Microdata analysis Information retrieval Cross-tabulations Estadística matemàtica -- Aplicacions Estadística -- Taules Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62P Applications Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62Q05 Statistical tables Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Estadística matemàtica |
| Sumario: | The U.S. Census Bureau has the responsibility to release high quality data products while maintaining the confidentiality promised to all respondents under Title 13 of the U.S. Code. This paper describes a Microdata Analysis System (MAS) that is currently under development, which will allow users to receive certain statistical analyses of Census Bureau data, such as crosstabulations and regressions, without ever having access to the data themselves. Such analyses must satisfy several statistical confidentiality rules; those that fail these rules will not be output to the user. In addition, the Drop q Rule, which requires removing a relatively small number of units before performing an analysis, is applied to all datasets. We describe the confidentiality rules and briefly outline an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Drop q Rule. We conclude with a description of other approaches to creating a system of this sort, and some directions for future research. |
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