Hugging the Southern Border
Fun fact -- Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit, is at the same latitude as Sacramento, California. The vast majority of the Canadian population lives within a couple of hundred miles of the American border. At first glance, this seems like a mild...
Random Rounding and Segmentation
The Canadian census has for some decades used a random rounding technique to minimize privacy concerns on its data. Essentially, the method works by rounding each number to the nearest five using a probability table. A value of 1 would have an 80% probability of being...
2020 Census Integration Update
As we await the full release of the 2020 Census data, we plan to periodically keep you updated on our plans to integrate the data into our databases. While the Census Bureau is changing dates for releases, this is a tentative schedule. Earlier this year, we updated...
Privacy and the Census
Every representative democracy has a fundamental need to undertake a regular enumeration of its citizens to ensure that equal representation can be maintained as best as possible. But once you have gone to considerable trouble to count the people, it is quite...
Comparative Demographics-Language
Most people in the world tend to lump the United States and Canada together, much in the way they would Austria and Germany, or Australia and New Zealand. Of course, this seriously annoys the citizens of these countries, who know better. Often, it is the citizen of...
June Round-Up
At the end of each month, the AGS team takes a look back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from June 2021. SiteSeer The...
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