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Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by philrhurst on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:58PM (#18620389)
I've used ACS and IPUMS data previously for research while at university. What are your thoughts on the proposed "differential privacy" changes [0] coming this way? Is it a "sky is falling" kind of situation?

[0] https://www.ipums.org/census-bureau-data.shtml

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Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by welliman on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:13PM (#18621689)
It's not really my area of expertise, but from what I understand it will severely limit what policy and demographic research can be done with the data. There's a working paper on the page you linked to which has more information: https://assets.ipums.org/_files/mpc/MPC-Working-Paper-2018-6....
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