Census Confidentiality (1952)

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• requires the U.S. Census Bureau to keep census responses confidential
• forbids the Bureau from disclosing any data allowing a person to be individually identified
• law states that census responses can be used only for statistical purposes that do not show individual or household personal data
  • census is a count of the population of a country
  • In the United States, people are required by law to respond to the census