Analysis of Unified School Districts and Places with Large Errors for the Population Ages 0 to 4 Caused by Application of Differential Privacy
In my analysis of the DP Demonstration Product released by the Census Bureau on August 25, 2022 (O’Hare 2022) I found many Unified School Districts and Places[1] where DP introduced large errors for the population ages 0 to 4. This paper focuses on those units that have an absolute percent error of 25 percent or more and those […]
A More Meaningful Comparison of the 2010 and 2020 Census Estimates of Net Undercoverage of Young Children
The Census Bureau recently released 2020 Census Demographic Analysis (DA) estimates of the net undercount of young children (ages 0 to 4). Jensen (2022) reported a net undercount of -5.4 percent for this age group. Comparisons with DA estimates from 2010 indicate an increase in net undercoverage of 0.8 percentage points (4.6 percent compared with 5.4 percent). Jensen […]
Analysis of Census Bureau’s March 2022 Differential Privacy Demonstration Product: Implications for Data on Young Children
The U.S. Census Bureau is using a new method called differential privacy (DP) to help protect confidentiality and privacy of respondents in the 2020 Census. This paper provides some information on how the use of DP in 2020 Census is likely to impact the accuracy of data for young children (population ages 0 to 4). […]
Counting Young Children in the U.S. Census – Important Differences Between 2010 and 2020
This report was originally posted by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The high net undercount of young children has been an on-going problem in the U.S . Decennial Census. Data released by the Census Bureau last month showed young children (ages 0 to 4) had the highest net undercount of any age group, as they […]
New Census Bureau Data Show Young Children Have a High Net Undercount in the 2020 Census
On March 10, 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau released some of the primary metrics needed to evaluate the quality of the 2020 Census (U.S. Census Bureau 2022). Specifically, the Census Bureau released data from Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) and limited data from the 2020 Census that could be compared to the Demographic Analysis (DA) estimates released […]
Many Young Children of Color are Clustered in Census Tracts Where 2020 Census Self-Response Rates are Likely to be Problematic
The best data on the quality of 2020 Census count of young children will not be available until the fall of 2022. That is when the Census Bureau is likely to release 2020 Census counts for the population ages 0 to 4 that can be compared to the Census Bureau’s Demographic Analysis estimates to calculate […]
Analysis of Census Bureau’s August 2021 Differential Privacy Demonstration Product: Implications for Data on Children
The U.S. Census Bureau is using a new method called differential privacy (DP) to help protect confidentiality and privacy of respondents in the 2020 Census. This paper provides some information on how DP is likely to impact the accuracy of data for children (population ages 0 to 17) in the 2020 Census. The study is […]
NEW REPORT: Preliminary Data on the Coverage of Children in the 2020 Census
The data presented in this paper strongly suggests that the high net undercount of young children that has been seen in the past several U.S. Censuses is likely to be seen in the 2020 Census. This analysis shows children have a higher net undercount than adults and that Black and Hispanic children have substantially higher […]
CENSUS DATA RELEASE SHOWS THE 2020 CENSUS HAD A HIGHER NET UNDERCOUNT OF CHILDREN THAN IN 2010
The Census Bureau just released its redistricting data, which is the first release from the 2020 Census that breaks out data by all children compared to all adults. The data is deeply disturbing to child advocates because it indicates that the Census had a higher net undercount of children in 2020 than it did in […]
Analysis of Census Bureau’s April 2021 Differential Privacy Demonstration Product: Implications for Data on Children
Thoughts and reactions to the data based on the DP file issued in April 2021 are due by May 28, 2021. Comments and responses can be sent to [email protected]. It would help if you put “April 2021 Demonstration Data” in the subject line of the email. The U.S. Census Bureau is planning to use a new […]
