Disclosure Avoidance and the Supplemental DHC: How PHSafe Works
Disclosure Avoidance and the Supplemental DHC File: How PHSafe Works
Report Number: C2020BR-12
This is the seventh and final in a series of briefs describing disclosure avoidance methods used to protect 2020 Census data products and the implications of those methods for data users.
This brief describes how the differentially private PHSafe algorithm addresses the unique disclosure avoidance challenges of the Supplemental Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (S-DHC) and provides guidance to data users.
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Disclosure Avoidance for the DHC and Guidance for Data Users
This brief describes how differential privacy works and how it is applied to the 2020 Census DHC.
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Housing Characteristics: 2020
The brief uses 2020 Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) data highlighting the nation's housing in 2020 as well as changes between 2010 and 2020.
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Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census: How SafeTab-H Works
This brief describes how differential privacy works and how it is applied to the 2020 Census Detailed DHC-B.
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