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Exemplar Uses of Census Data Products
Cavan CappsBig Data Lead
U.S. Census
Prepared for
Census-MIT Big Data Workshop Series
MITNovember 2015
What information does the Census Bureau collect?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
Economic Data●Retail Trade●Imports●Exports●Whole Trade●Inventories●Housing Starts●Building●Shipments●Manufacturing●Construction●Mining●Services
Economic CensusEmploymentServicesBuilding PermitsResearch & DevelopmentInvestment PlansPlant & EquiptmentInformation & Communication TechBusiness Startups- Job creation- Job lossCompany Organization
What information does the Census Bureau collect?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
Health Care Establishments●Investments●Expenditures●Social Assistance
Industries Households
●HIV/AIDS●Health Insurance●Health Status●Nutritional Status
Housing- New Housing
Construction- Physical
Characteristics- Housing Vacancies- Residential
Financing - Housing Ownership- Rental Housing- Multi-family Housing
What information does the Census Bureau collect?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
Criminal Justice●Sexual Violence●Parole Survey●Deaths in Custody● Juvenile Residential●National Prisoner
Stats●Criminal Justice
Expenditures●Annual Survey of
Jails●Victimization Survey
State & Local Gov’t - Census of
Governments- Finances- Taxes- Redistricting - Employment &
Payroll- Teacher
Compensation- State Libraries- Public Libraries- Academic Libraries
What information does the Census Bureau collect?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
Demographic Data●PL-94●Age●Race●Sex●Hispanic●Language●Veterans●Migrations●Unemployment
Educational AttainmentMarital StatusFamily CompositionChildrenFertilityForeign BornIncomeEarningsCommuting to Work
How is data accessed/provided?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
● Public Use Summary Estimates
● Public Use Microdata
● Interactive Tables & Maps
● Research Data Centers
Who uses Census data products?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
● General Public● Real Estate: comparing communities
●Journalism● Elderly Demographic Trends
● Industry/Commercial Sector● Creating Business Plans● Marketing, Business Growth (location studies,
labor force, community characteristics)● Stock Market Forecasting (●Policy●Federal Reserve Decisions ●Local Policy (urban planning & development; emergency response)
●Housing Legislation●Judicial Reform
How is Public microdata accessed/Used?
Concepts in Privacy and Confidentiality
●Research ( 3 months - several years)●State/Local policy support (Quick Turnaround)●Joint Economic Committee required to analyze discouraged workers in 2008 after release of official unemployment number.
●Baltimore State data center wanted to know if there are more elderly people leaving the state than arriving to change tax policy. Needing official migration data.
●Tabulation of millennial attributes for libraries and marketing.
Required when the public tabulations categories available do not include the categories needed.
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Recap: Extent of Data Released • Official Indicators• Pre-computed published tablesPublished Estimates
• Interactive queries to find a single number or table• Based on pre-computed tablesQuick Lookups
• Public interactive servers• Based on public use tabulations or micro-dataDynamic Tables
& Maps• Aggregated to pre-defined geographical or logical units• Processed statistical disclosure limitation methods• Based on protected micro-data
Public Use Tabulations
•Processed with SDL: deidentification, sampling, synthetic data•In rare cases, synthetic data used•Based on protected micro-data
Public Use Micro-data
• Possibly identified• Available within Research Data CentersProtected Micro-data
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