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Linking Enrollment Records to Survey Reports: the CHIME Study Design

April 02, 2018

Design of an experimental reverse-record check study that compared CPS and ACS survey responses to health insurance enrollment records.
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The Expected P-Value of the Sign Test Under a Non-i.i.d. Alternative

September 13, 2002

The EPV can be used in lieu of the power of a test.
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A New Model for International Privacy

December 2024

NSOs have competing mandates to both maintain the privacy of individuals and organizations whose data they collect and to provide broad access to that data.
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A Census Bureau Survey Landing Page Website Metric Summary

October 15, 2024

Evaluation of the Census 2023 test landing page usage, e.g. devices and referral methods used and rates of navigated to the census form.
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Database Reconstruction Does Compromise Confidentiality

March 15, 2023
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Targeting At-Risk Households to Reduce the Undercount

April 17, 2025

Detailed agenda for incorporating community-based participatory research and administrative records to target sample for research to reduce the undercount.
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CED-DA Re-Identification User Guide - Module I

March 24, 2026
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Preliminary Report on Differentially Private Post-Stratification

June 06, 2023
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An Annotated Bibliography of Privacy-Violating Attacks

January 23, 2023

This annotated bibliography is intended to serve as a convenient guide to papers constituting the scientific literature on privacy-violating attacks.
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The Statistical Mechanics of Formal Privacy

May 06, 2026
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Debiasing Functions of Private Statistics in Postprocessing

February 25, 2025
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Towards a Principled Framework for Disclosure Avoidance

January 15, 2025

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Disclosure Avoidance

Learn more about areas of statistical disclosure control, confidentiality, and disclosure limitation.
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General Economic Research

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Mortality Disparities in American Communities (MDAC)

Research database on 2008 American Community Survey respondents and a follow-up of mortality outcomes through 2015.
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Time Series and Seasonal Adjustment

Seasonal adjustment is the estimation of the seasonal component, followed by their removal from the time series.