This is the sixth in a series of briefs describing disclosure avoidance methods used to protect 2020 Census data products and the implications of those methods for data users.

This brief focuses on the disclosure avoidance impli­cations for the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) and potential use cases.

If you are interested in understanding how disclosure avoidance was applied to the DHC, refer to “Disclosure Avoidance and the 2020 Census: How the TopDown Algorithm Works.”