The 2010 Census Confidentiality Protections Failed, Here's How and Why
The 2010 Census Confidentiality Protections Failed, Here's How and Why
Using only 34 published tables, we reconstruct five variables (census block, sex, age, race, and ethnicity) in the confidential 2010 Census person records. Using the 38-bin age variable tabulated at the census block level, at most 20.1% of reconstructed records can differ from their confidential source on even a single …