Modernizing Privacy Protections for the 2020 Census: Next Steps

April 28, 2021

DR. JOHN M. ABOWD, CHIEF SCIENTIST AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY AND DR. VICTORIA A. VELKOFF, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR DEMOGRAPHIC PROGRAMS

The world has evolved quite a bit since 1990, the last time we changed the way we protect individual responses in published census statistics. Back in the pre-Internet age, statistics were shared via floppy disk. Most people had to visit a library to look up census and other publicly available information.

Today, that information is now freely available online. The amount of personal data about each of us, from commercial and public databases as well as social media, is massive and growing.

This entry was posted on April 28, 2021 and filed under Disclosure Avoidance.

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2011

Black or African American and Population | November 21, 2011

Majority of the Black Population Lived in the South

The Black population was highly concentrated in counties in the South. In 106 counties, the Black alone-or-in-combination population represented 50 percent or more of the total county population. All of these counties were located in the South except for the city of St. Louis, MO, which is considered a county equivalent.

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