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8 Identification of Rural and Special Populations: American Indians and Alaska Natives
Pages 97-108

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From page 97...
... both discussed population counts on American Indian reservations and Alaska Native villages.
From page 98...
... His analysis of the 2010 DDP data suggested that the 2020 disclosure avoidance system implementation as implemented in the DDP systematically exacerbate those undercounts. Beginning with a basic plot of population identifying solely as AIAN and comparing the 2010 DDP against the original 2010 Census tabulations with each point being an AIAN reservation or tribal land, Akee noted that the deviations from the 45-degree equality line looked small, but this visual effect was amplified by the presence of the major outlier presented by the Navajo Nation, the population of which (150,000)
From page 99...
... Virtually all of the points for those small-sized reservations and tribal lands lie below the zero line, and many are fairly close to 0 (small deviations) but systematically low.
From page 100...
... Tribes in Washington State showed a little more variation, but most tribes had an undercount in the DDP data. Akee drilled down further
From page 101...
... Akee further cautioned that California's reservations and tribal lands tend to be smaller in population than those elsewhere in the nation, meaning that the seemingly small estimate discrepancies can represent large percentages for those communities. 8.1.2 Differences for Alaska Natives in Villages Similar to his findings for American Indians on reservations, small Alaska Native villages (below 4,000 people)
From page 102...
... Once the privacy budget is exhausted, Akee understood that no further data products could be released until the raw data were turned over to the National Archives in 72 years. Akee believed that the relevant communities needed to discuss how the privacy budget would be allocated, whether the funds ultimately went to congressionally mandated research, agency research, state and local government research, or academic research.
From page 103...
... In its attempt to stimulate participation in the 2010 Census by Indian tribes and Alaska Native populations, the Census Bureau and its partners emphasized responding to the census because it would provide power for native people. This means power that arises from redistricting and the federal programs that fund Indian tribes and organizations and Alaska Native organizations using formulas which depend in part on decennial census data.
From page 104...
... DeWeaver answered that the special responsibility the federal government has to the AIAN population acted as a safeguard for equity. The federal government had taken Indian land and by various devices helped to reduce the AIAN population.
From page 105...
... Up until now, federal agencies received the data with swapping for privacy protection, and there was no access to the detailed edited file. Snipp asked Census Bureau senior management to comment.
From page 106...
... DeWeaver agreed that privacy was an important issue to which data junkies tended perhaps not to pay enough attention. It intrigued him that the Census Bureau's justification for introducing differential privacy and moving beyond the privacy disclosure procedures that were used in previous censuses was the availability of commercial databases for reconstructing individual records.
From page 107...
... They must be engaged, and that was what the National Congress for American Indians has undertaken to do in collaboration with the Census Bureau. He applauded the release of the 2010 DDP as a good way of launching fuller engagement so that tribal nations could determine where they wanted to be on the privacy-versus-utility continuum.


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