The US Administration may have just ended public-use microdata, a central pillar of research that estimates the true effects of social policy and keeps the government accountable. Thread—>
Michael Clemens
NEW: The Trump administration is banning one of the Census Bureau's main ways of protecting the confidentiality of people's responses to the #2030Census and other surveys — added statistical "noise," or data for fuzzing survey results
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