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Differential Privacy 101 Basics

This introductory webinar will explain the Census Bureau’s decision to modernize the methods we use to protect respondent confidentiality in the data we release.

We will cover the basic principles and concepts of disclosure avoidance and differential privacy and discuss their implications for census data users.

Course Materials

Disclosure Avoidance or Statistical Disclosure Controls

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