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The Impact of New Disclosure Avoidance Procedures on Estimating Supplemental Poverty Rates Using Public Microdata Files
The Impact of New Disclosure Avoidance Procedures on Estimating Supplemental Poverty Rates Using Public Microdata Files
Working Paper Number SEHSD WP-2023-25
Introduction
In 2023, as part of ongoing disclosure avoidance modernization, the U.S. Census Bureau began partially synthesizing geographic information available in public use Current Population Survey (CPS) data. The partial synthesis expands existing disclosure avoidance practices on CPS public use data which suppressed geographic information for areas with small populations. This synthesis is not applied to internal files, thus estimates in the annual Poverty in the United States report are unaffected by this change. We test whether this new procedure impacts data user’s ability to replicate estimates produced in Poverty in the United States: 2022 compared to previous releases. The results show that implementation of additional geographic synthesis does not substantially change data users’ ability to replicate estimates using public use data.
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