# Census Bureau Disclosure Review Board The **Disclosure Review Board** is the committee that stands between a finished Census Bureau table and its publication. Its published policy gives it twelve voting members plus a non-voting programme manager: two technical co-chairs, one member each from the policy coordination and communications offices, and two each from research and methodology, economic programmes, demographic programmes and decennial programmes. The board "and its delegates review and clear all Census Bureau information products within their purview," and its authority to release a protected figure is delegated from the [[Data Stewardship Executive Policy Committee]], to which it reports and whose decision on appeal is final. It also requires that every microdata release derived from federal tax data be reviewed by the tax agency before publication. The board was established in 1995, and it is the only disclosure review board in the federal statistical system whose organising policy is published — most agencies have such a body and none of the others publishes a charter for it. What the board does not publish is its output. Individual clearance decisions go into an internal database, and while its policy commits to "an annual DRB report" whose "final version will be made available on the Census Bureau's external website," no such report could be found there in November 2026. The policy likewise promises a public document listing approved techniques, with "any disclosure avoidance parameters that cannot be publicly released ... confined to a confidential appendix." > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See also - [[Federal Disclosure Avoidance Crosswalk]] — this board set beside the nine other agencies' review bodies, and the line between what each one publishes and what it withholds - [[Data Stewardship Executive Policy Committee]] · [[Differential Privacy]] · [[Federal Statistical Research Data Centers]] - [[Census Bureau]] · [[Census Data Access Crosswalk]] · [[Census Data Products Tree]]