The Trump administration has implemented a new policy that restricts the methods used by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to release statistical data. This order, "Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products," prioritizes "coarsening" (grouping and rounding data) and "suppression" (redacting information) over "noise infusion," a technique that adds random values to protect privacy. Experts and data organizations are concerned that this change will lead to less reliable and less usable public data, particularly affecting small communities and industries, and potentially compromising privacy or data accuracy. AI
RANK_REASON Policy change impacting federal statistical agencies and public data access. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.1]
- American Statistics Association
- Association of Population Centers
- Association of Public Data Users
- Beth Jarosz
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
- Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products
- Georgetown University
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- Massive Data Institute
- noise infusion
- OnTheMap for Emergency Management
- Population Association of America
- Quarterly Workforce Indicators
- Steve Pierson
- Trump administration
- Census Bureau
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