Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum

arXiv:2404.10095v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The US Decennial Census provides valuable data for both research and policy purposes. Census data are subject to a variety of disclosure avoidance techniques prior to release in order to preserve respondent confidentiality. While many are interested in studying the impacts of disclosure avoidance methods on downstream analyses, particularly with the introduction of differential privacy in the 2020 Decennial Census, these efforts are limited by a critical lack of data: The underlying "microdata," which serve …

arxiv census confidentiality cs.cr cs.cy cs.ds data disclosure order policy release research synthetic techniques