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Synthesizing Familial Linkages for Privacy in Microdata

open access: yesThe Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2023
As the Census Bureau strives to modernize its disclosure avoidance efforts in all of its outputs, synthetic data has become a successful way to provide external researchers a chance to conduct a wide variety of analyses on microdata while still ...
Gary Benedetto, Evan Totty
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The Use of Blended Data to Improve Public Assistance Programs: Results from a Partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, USDA, and State Program Agencies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
The Census Bureau is partnering with state public assistance agencies to acquire program participation data and estimate new statistics that deepen a state’s understanding of program participants and improve outreach efforts to those who are eligible but
Benjamin Cerf   +3 more
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Using electronic transaction data to add geographic granularity to official estimates of retail sales

open access: yesJournal of Big Data, 2019
Introduction Economists are interested in more granular, more frequent data to aid in their understanding of the U.S. economy. The most frequent economic data currently available from the U.S.
Brian Dumbacher   +2 more
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Optimal AK composite estimators in current population survey

open access: yesStatistical Theory and Related Fields, 2017
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly household sample survey with a sample consisting of eight rotation groups. Sampled individuals of a rotation group are interviewed four consecutive months and another four consecutive months after resting ...
Yang Cheng, Jun Shao, Zhou Yu
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Demonstrating the Use of Linked Data to Advance Education Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Linking K-12 data on students and teachers to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) information allows us to answer questions that are difficult to answer using survey data or educational administrative data alone.
Sonya R Porter   +3 more
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Evaluating Multilingual Questionnaires: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

open access: yesSurvey Research Methods, 2014
This study aims to develop an assessment tool to evaluate multilingual questionnaires by categorizing the types of translation issues that can lead to measurement errors in cross-cultural surveys.
Yuling Pan, Marissa Fond
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Reconciling Parent-Child Relationships across US Administrative Datasets

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Population data capture children, parents, relatives, and others moving in and out of households. The U.S. has seen falling marriage rates, and increases in multigenerational households and complex families, young children living with ...
Amy O'Hara   +3 more
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Releasing Earnings Distributions using Differential Privacy

open access: yesThe Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2019
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released data on earnings percentiles of graduates from post-secondary institutions. This paper describes and evaluates the disclosure avoidance system developed for these statistics.
Andrew David Foote   +2 more
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A Flexible Mixed Model for Clustered Count Data

open access: yesStats, 2022
Clustered count data are commonly modeled using Poisson regression with random effects to account for the correlation induced by clustering. The Poisson mixed model allows for overdispersion via the nature of the within-cluster correlation, however ...
Darcy Steeg Morris, Kimberly F. Sellers
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Multi-outcome longitudinal small area estimation – a case study

open access: yesStatistical Theory and Related Fields, 2019
A recent paper [Thibaudeau, Slud, and Gottschalck (2017). Modeling log-linear conditional probabilities for estimation in surveys. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 11, 680–697] proposed a ‘hybrid’ method of survey estimation combining coarsely cross ...
Eric Slud, Yves Thibaudeau
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