New Census director has faith in quality of 2020 numbers
2 years, 10 months ago

New Census director has faith in quality of 2020 numbers

Associated Press  

The new U.S. Census Bureau director said Monday that he is listening to the concerns of data users and policymakers, and the agency is making permanent community outreach efforts, in an effort to restore any trust that was lost following attempts by the Trump administration to politicize the nation’s 2020 head count. Despite those attempts and obstacles created by the pandemic, the Census Bureau did its job and the numbers used to determine political power and allocate federal funding “are quality products, and they are fit for the purpose they were intended,” Robert Santos said in an interview with The Associated Press. Santos said Monday that he is “eager” to work with the Office of Budget and Management on exploring whether the race and ethnic background questions should be combined and whether a category for people of Middle Eastern or North African descent should be added to the 2030 census form. A report released last month from three sociologists said that the current practice of categorizing people from the Middle East or North Africa as white “may not correspond to their lived experiences nor to others’ perceptions.” The Census Bureau director wouldn’t say if he personally supported adding questions on the 2030 census form about sexual orientation or gender identity, saying “my personal feelings are not fodder for this type of conversation.” Sexual orientation and gender identity are asked about in a new Census Bureau survey formed during the pandemic, the Household Pulse Survey, but they have never been asked about in the much more comprehensive decennial census.

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Noncitizens are less likely to participate in a census with citizenship question, study says
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Noncitizens are less likely to participate in a census with citizenship question, study says

Associated Press  

Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren’t U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries, according to a new research paper that comes as Republicans in Congress are pushing to add such a question to the census form. Noncitizens who pay taxes but are ineligible to have a Social Security number are less …

Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power

Associated Press  

Some Republicans in Congress are pushing to require a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the once-a-decade census and exclude people who aren’t citizens from the count that helps determine political power in the United States. of getting every single possible advantage when the country is so closely divided.” The 14th Amendment requires that congressional seats be distributed among the …

Opinion: Latinos are getting out of the ‘other’ box on the U.S. census
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Latinos are getting out of the ‘other’ box on the U.S. census

LA Times  

The next census in the United States will allow people to identify as Latino/Hispanic as well as other categories under the heading of race/ethnicity. For decades, the U.S. census has maintained separate questions for Latino origin and race, forcing Latinos to choose from options such as white, Black, American Indian, Asian and “other” under the race rubric. But there are …

New census numbers project over 1 in 4 Americans will be Latino by 2060
1 year, 1 month ago

New census numbers project over 1 in 4 Americans will be Latino by 2060

LA Times  

A new 2023 National Population Projections by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that over 1 in 4 Americans are likely to be Latino by 2060. Overall population numbers are predicted to rise from 333 million people to nearly 370 million by the year 2080, with immigration as the largest contributor, while mortality rates increase and decline in fertility persists as …

Census Bureau valiantly conducted 2020 census, but privacy method degraded quality, report says
1 year, 2 months ago

Census Bureau valiantly conducted 2020 census, but privacy method degraded quality, report says

Associated Press  

The U.S. Census Bureau’s career staffers valiantly conducted the 2020 census under unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, but new privacy protocols meant to protect the confidentiality of participants degraded the resulting data, according to a report released Tuesday. Key innovations such as encouraging most participants to fill out the census questionnaire online and permitting the use of administrative records …

The growing racial gap in U.S. census results is raising an expert panel's concerns
1 year, 2 months ago

The growing racial gap in U.S. census results is raising an expert panel's concerns

NPR  

The growing racial gap in U.S. census results is raising an expert panel's concerns Enlarge this image toggle caption Brian Snyder/Reuters Brian Snyder/Reuters The widening racial and ethnic gaps in how accurately different populations are counted in the U.S. census threatens the equitable distribution of political representation and federal funding, warns a new report by an expert panel who reviewed …

Simulation suggests 2020 census missed many noncitizens
1 year, 7 months ago

Simulation suggests 2020 census missed many noncitizens

Associated Press  

New results from a U.S. Census Bureau simulation indicate a significant number of noncitizens were missed in the 2020 census, a national head count during which the Trump administration tried to prevent people in the United States illegally from being tallied at all. Almost a fifth of noncitizens found in the administrative records had addresses that couldn’t be matched in …

The 2020 census may have missed a big share of noncitizens, the bureau estimates
1 year, 7 months ago

The 2020 census may have missed a big share of noncitizens, the bureau estimates

NPR  

The 2020 census may have missed a big share of noncitizens, the bureau estimates Enlarge this image toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The last national head count of people living in the United States may have missed a substantial share of residents who are not U.S. citizens, according to a Census Bureau report …

Are Brazilians Hispanic? Many say ‘yes,’ report says
1 year, 8 months ago

Are Brazilians Hispanic? Many say ‘yes,’ report says

Associated Press  

A coding error in an annual survey by the U.S. Census Bureau has offered unprecedented insight into how large numbers of Brazilians in the U.S. identify as Hispanic or Latino. An analysis by Pew Research Center shows that the coding mistake revealed at least 416,000 Brazilians, or more than two-thirds of Brazilians in the U.S., identifying as Hispanic in the …

Large numbers of Hispanics didn’t pick single race in census
1 year, 8 months ago

Large numbers of Hispanics didn’t pick single race in census

Associated Press  

More than 43% of Hispanics either didn’t respond to the question asking them to select their race or selected the “some other race” box on the 2020 census form, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday, lending support to arguments that the federal government should change its race and ethnicity categories. The percent of the Hispanic population reporting a single race …

New 'Latino' and 'Middle Eastern or North African' checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms
1 year, 10 months ago

New 'Latino' and 'Middle Eastern or North African' checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms

NPR  

New 'Latino' and 'Middle Eastern or North African' checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms Enlarge this image toggle caption RussellCreative/Getty Images RussellCreative/Getty Images The Biden administration is proposing major changes to forms for the 2030 census and federal government surveys that would transform how Latinos and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent are counted in statistics across the United …

House OKs bill to curb political interference with census
2 years, 3 months ago

House OKs bill to curb political interference with census

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Thursday intended to make it harder for future presidents to interfere with the once-a-decade census that determines political power and federal funding, a move that comes in response to the Trump’s administration’s failed effort to make a citizenship question part of the 2020 headcount. It “Partisan manipulation of the census is simply wrong,” said …

Census meddling is targeted in bill, recommendations
2 years, 3 months ago

Census meddling is targeted in bill, recommendations

Associated Press  

Democratic lawmakers intent on making sure that unprecedented efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the 2020 census never happen again are moving forward with plans for safeguards they say will help the U.S. head count stay free of future interference. The Biden administration on Tuesday said it supported the legislation but indicated it may want changed provisions in the …

AP interview: Census director aims to restore trust in count
2 years, 4 months ago

AP interview: Census director aims to restore trust in count

Associated Press  

The next U.S. census isn’t until 2030, but already Census Bureau leaders are looking for ways to adapt to a roiled civic climate that only seems to be getting more contentious. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press that the statistical agency is planning to start its outreach efforts with hard-to-reach communities earlier, …

Democracy Is Asking Too Much of Its Data
2 years, 5 months ago

Democracy Is Asking Too Much of Its Data

Wired  

Abraham Lincoln once expressed the desire, in a time of civil war, to preserve a government that was “of the people, by the people, for the people.” What he did not say was that such government has also always been of the data, by the data, and sometimes for the data. Representation in the US depends on a constitutional requirement, …

Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities missed
2 years, 9 months ago

Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities missed

Associated Press  

Is it time to rethink the census and other surveys that measure changes in the U.S. population? The bureau’s biggest between-census effort to take the measure of the U.S. population, the American Community Survey, produces 11 billion statistics from interviews with 3.5 million households each year, and the once-a-decade census tallies every U.S. resident for a count used in divvying …

Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities are missed
2 years, 9 months ago

Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities are missed

LA Times  

Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The bureau’s biggest between-census effort to take the measure of the U.S. population, the American Community Survey, produces 11 billion statistics from interviews with 3.5 million households each year, and the once-a-decade census tallies every …

Some minority groups missed at higher rate in 2020 US census
2 years, 9 months ago

Some minority groups missed at higher rate in 2020 US census

Associated Press  

Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were missed at higher rates than a decade ago during the 2020 census, according to a report released Thursday that evaluated how well the once-a-decade head count tallied every U.S. resident. Even though the 2020 census missed an unexpectedly small percentage of the total U.S. population given the unprecedented challenges it faced, the increase …

Latinos undercounted by 5% in latest census, more than three times the amount in 2010
2 years, 9 months ago

Latinos undercounted by 5% in latest census, more than three times the amount in 2010

LA Times  

The 2020 census missed an unexpectedly small percentage of the total U.S. population given the unprecedented challenges it faced, but Black, Hispanic and Native American residents were overlooked at higher rates than a decade ago, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The Black population in the 2020 census had an estimated net undercount of 3.3%, and the gap was almost …

US Census undercounted minorities in 2020, new data shows
2 years, 9 months ago

US Census undercounted minorities in 2020, new data shows

Al Jazeera  

Undercounting could affect federal funding, political representation for Black, Latino and other minority communities in the country. Black people, Latinos, and Native Americans were undercounted during the United States 2020 national census, new US Census Bureau data showed, potentially affecting political representation and federal funding for communities with significant minority populations. Demographics experts have said an ultimately unsuccessful effort by …

Let the challenges begin! Time for contesting census is here
2 years, 11 months ago

Let the challenges begin! Time for contesting census is here

Associated Press  

Detroit’s mayor believes tens of thousands of residents in the majority-Black city were missed in the 2020 census. At the start of the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau began accepting challenges from states, counties, cities and tribal nations about one of the most difficult counts in recent memory, due to the pandemic, political interference from the Trump administration, hurricanes …

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows
2 years, 11 months ago

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows

NPR  

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Andrew Harnik/AP Former President Donald Trump's administration alarmed career civil servants at the Census Bureau by not only ending the 2020 national head count early, but also pressuring them to alter plans for protecting people's privacy and producing accurate data, …

Census may have missed 48,000 Americans in Arizona: report
2 years, 11 months ago

Census may have missed 48,000 Americans in Arizona: report

Raw Story  

The 2020 Census may have missed more than 1.6 million Americans, about 48,000 of them in Arizona, with the undercount disproportionately falling on minority groups, according to a recent report. The first results of that survey are not expected until early 2022, but the bureau said on its website that so far, “overall, we found that the 2020 Census redistricting …

Census Bureau works to improve confidence in 2020 head count
3 years ago

Census Bureau works to improve confidence in 2020 head count

LA Times  

The Census Bureau is looking to improve trust in the numbers it gathered during the 2020 census by fixing problems caused by the unprecedented challenges of conducting a U.S. head count during a pandemic, natural disasters and efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the process. The Census Bureau announced last week that it will break with past practice and …

Census Bureau works to improve confidence in 2020 headcount
3 years ago

Census Bureau works to improve confidence in 2020 headcount

Associated Press  

The Census Bureau is looking to improve trust in the numbers it gathered during the 2020 census by fixing problems caused by the unprecedented challenges of conducting a U.S. head count during a pandemic, natural disasters and efforts by the Trump administration to politicize the process. The Census Bureau announced last week that it will break with past practice and …

Census analysis finds undercount but not as bad as predicted
3 years, 1 month ago

Census analysis finds undercount but not as bad as predicted

Associated Press  

The 2020 census missed an estimated 1.6 million people, but given hurdles posed by the pandemic and natural disasters, the undercount was smaller than expected, according to an analysis by a think tank that did computer simulations of the nation’s head count. “The fact that the undercount wasn’t larger is surprising and certainly a good news story,” said Diana Elliott, …

Researchers worry about Census’ gap in 2020 survey data
3 years, 1 month ago

Researchers worry about Census’ gap in 2020 survey data

Associated Press  

Researchers are worried about coronavirus-related disruptions to one of the U.S. Census Bureau’s most important surveys about how Americans live, saying a gap in the 2020 data will make it more difficult to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and measure year-to-year changes. The Census Bureau released a report Wednesday detailing its decision to release the 2020 American Community …

Census ponders producing less granular data in next release
3 years, 2 months ago

Census ponders producing less granular data in next release

Associated Press  

U.S. Census Bureau officials said Friday that they were pondering whether to produce less granular data in the next round of 2020 census data, dealing with housing and family relationships, in a decision that could upset researchers, city planners and others who rely on neighborhood-level information. By limiting some of the next round of 2020 census information to just the …

Census: Rethinking how to count people in dorms, prisons
3 years, 3 months ago

Census: Rethinking how to count people in dorms, prisons

Associated Press  

Following a 2020 census in which the pandemic made access to group housing difficult, Census Bureau officials said Thursday they are going to reassess how they count people living in dorms, prisons and nursing homes in the next head count of every U.S. resident in 2030. The Census Bureau is going to rethink how residents of group quarters are accounted …

Census experts find no political influence in state totals
3 years, 3 months ago

Census experts find no political influence in state totals

Associated Press  

Outside experts found no evidence of political interference in the state-by-state population totals from the 2020 census used for divvying up congressional seats, but their limited review didn’t include demographic data or places smaller than states, according to a task force report released Tuesday. The task force was established by the American Statistical Association last year during the most difficult …

U.S. population has become more diverse, 2020 census shows as redistricting frenzy begins
3 years, 4 months ago

U.S. population has become more diverse, 2020 census shows as redistricting frenzy begins

LA Times  

The U.S. Census Bureau released new data from the 2020 count on Thursday. The United States is more diverse than ever, with growing numbers of Latino, Asian and multiracial residents, while the white population saw a historic decline, a census report revealed Thursday, kicking off a frenzied push to redraw the nation’s political map. “Our analysis of the 2020 census …

Census experts puzzled by high rate of unanswered questions
3 years, 4 months ago

Census experts puzzled by high rate of unanswered questions

The Independent  

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Biden Is Reviving An Effort To Change How The Census Asks About Race And Ethnicity
3 years, 5 months ago

Biden Is Reviving An Effort To Change How The Census Asks About Race And Ethnicity

NPR  

Biden Is Reviving An Effort To Change How The Census Asks About Race And Ethnicity Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Uhrich/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images Bill Uhrich/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images President Biden's White House is reviving a previously stalled review of proposed policy changes that could allow the Census Bureau to ask about people's race and …

Biden's Historic Pick For Census Director Says Bureau Needs To Build Public Trust
3 years, 5 months ago

Biden's Historic Pick For Census Director Says Bureau Needs To Build Public Trust

NPR  

Biden's Historic Pick For Census Director Says Bureau Needs To Build Public Trust Enlarge this image toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Jacquelyn Martin/AP Robert Santos, President Biden's nominee for director of the U.S. Census Bureau, is a step closer to a potential political appointment for the history books after testifying before Congress on Thursday. Sponsor Message "I understand the importance of …

The first batch of 2020 census data surprised many. A look at what’s next
3 years, 7 months ago

The first batch of 2020 census data surprised many. A look at what’s next

LA Times  

People walk on the sidewalks of New York on Monday. There were some genuine surprises in the first batch of data from the nation’s 2020 head count released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2020 census data released this week — state population counts of every resident — were just the tip of the iceberg of what’s coming …

Opinion: State population totals stir questions about a possible Latino census undercount
3 years, 7 months ago

Opinion: State population totals stir questions about a possible Latino census undercount

LA Times  

Despite invitations to participate in the 2020 census, concerns grow that Latinos may have been undercounted in some states. But a curious pattern seems to be emerging: The census’ own estimates of some state populations in recent years were higher than the announced decennial count itself, leading to some persuasive speculation that Republican efforts to reduce participation in the count, …

Census takeaways: Sluggish growth, good news for the GOP, bad news for Latinos?
3 years, 7 months ago

Census takeaways: Sluggish growth, good news for the GOP, bad news for Latinos?

LA Times  

U.S. Census Bureau Acting Director Ron Jarmin speaks as a graphic showing the U.S. population as of April 1, 2020, is displayed during a virtual news conference Monday. The U.S. population grew to 331 million, a 7.4% growth rate from the last time the Census Bureau counted every person in the country, in 2010. World & Nation Biden picks first …

Biden Ends Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden Ends Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted

NPR  

Biden Ends Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Updated at 9:44 p.m. ET One of President Biden's first executive actions has reversed former President Donald Trump's unprecedented policy of altering a key census count by excluding …

Census Bureau makes last-minute push to tally non-citizens, watchdog says
3 years, 11 months ago

Census Bureau makes last-minute push to tally non-citizens, watchdog says

CNN  

CNN — Government officials balked when the Census Bureau set a last-minute deadline to assemble data on non-citizens as part of an apparent anti-immigration push by the Trump administration before leaving office, according to a new watchdog report. The Commerce Department’s inspector general, overseeing the 2020 Census, revealed on Tuesday that Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham told employees that a …

Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan
3 years, 11 months ago

Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan

Associated Press  

The Census Bureau will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, a delay that could undermine President Donald Trump’s efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures aren’t submitted before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Once in office, Biden could rescind Trump’s presidential memorandum directing the Census …

Census Missed Year-End Deadline For Delivering Numbers For House Seats
3 years, 11 months ago

Census Missed Year-End Deadline For Delivering Numbers For House Seats

NPR  

Census Missed Year-End Deadline For Delivering Numbers For House Seats Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Andrew Harnik/AP Updated Friday at 2:49 p.m. ET Saddled with delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic and last-minute changes by the Trump administration, the first set of 2020 census results were not ready for release by Thursday's year-end deadline for numbers that determine …

With deadline looming, group wants more census documents
3 years, 11 months ago

With deadline looming, group wants more census documents

Associated Press  

With the Census Bureau days away from likely missing a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, President Donald Trump’s administration still hasn’t turned over documents showing how it’s crunching the data on a shortened schedule, according to a coalition of municipal governments and civil rights groups. Attorneys for the municipalities and civil rights groups …

Flaws in US census count jeopardise Trump's plan to exclude illegal immigrants from congressional reapportionment
4 years ago

Flaws in US census count jeopardise Trump's plan to exclude illegal immigrants from congressional reapportionment

Firstpost  

The move, unprecedented in American history, would produce an older, whiter, more rural population base for reallocating House seats that would mostly benefit Republicans, analysts say Washington: Census Bureau experts have uncovered serious flaws in a section of the 2020 headcount that potentially affect the enumeration of millions, according to people familiar with the census operations, delaying still further the …

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count
4 years ago

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count

NPR  

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images A federal court in Washington, D.C., has tossed out a lawsuit filed against President Trump's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key set of census numbers. It …

Can President-Elect Biden Redo The 2020 Census? It's Complicated
4 years, 1 month ago

Can President-Elect Biden Redo The 2020 Census? It's Complicated

NPR  

Can President-Elect Biden Redo The 2020 Census? Lowenthal and some other longtime census watchers are calling, instead, for the Biden transition team to set up a panel of experts, both within and outside of the federal government, to review early indicators of the quality of the 2020 census and determine whether it can be used to not only reapportion House …

The Census Is Not Over: What's Ahead During The Biden Transition
4 years, 1 month ago

The Census Is Not Over: What's Ahead During The Biden Transition

NPR  

The Census Is Not Over: What's Ahead During The Biden Transition Enlarge this image toggle caption Photo illustration by Pavlo Conchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Photo illustration by Pavlo Conchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Counting has ended, but the 2020 census is not over yet — and it's likely to get tangled in the fraught transition to President-elect Joe Biden's …

Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens
4 years, 2 months ago

Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up President Donald Trump’s policy, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people living in the U.S. illegally from the census count that will be used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. Trump’s high court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, could take part in the case if, as seems likely, …

US top court to hear Trump bid to exclude noncitizens from census
4 years, 2 months ago

US top court to hear Trump bid to exclude noncitizens from census

Al Jazeera  

The census, conducted every 10 years, determines how seats in the US House of Representatives are allocated. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from a countrywide population count that determines how congressional seats are allocated. The Supreme Court rejected his attempt last year and should do …

US Supreme Court halts census in latest legal twist
4 years, 2 months ago

US Supreme Court halts census in latest legal twist

Al Jazeera  

The ruling allows the Census Bureau to wind down the counting of the 2020 US population a month earlier than originally planned in a blow to civil rights groups. The Trump administration argued that the headcount needed to end immediately so that the Census Bureau had enough time to crunch the numbers before a congressionally mandated year-end deadline for turning …

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