Census

National Academies Seeks Experts to Assess 2020 U.S. Census
Announcements
May 7, 2021

National Academies Seeks Experts to Assess 2020 U.S. Census

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Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?
Public Policy
September 25, 2020

Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?

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Will We See A More Private, But Less Useful, Census?
Census
September 14, 2020

Will We See A More Private, But Less Useful, Census?

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Some Americans Don’t Trust the Census
Census
September 14, 2020

Some Americans Don’t Trust the Census

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A Shortened Census Count Hurts Communities of Color

A Shortened Census Count Hurts Communities of Color

The 2020 Census will count fewer Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin than actually live in the U.S. That will mean less public money for essential services in their communities, and less representation by elected officials at the state and federal levels.

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Looking at Censuses Past and Future: A Talk With Andrew Whitby

Looking at Censuses Past and Future: A Talk With Andrew Whitby

In an age where issues of ethnicity and identity matter, as well, as in the United States, political representation, the import and impact of censuses, along with how they are structured, carried out and analyzed, matters greatly. And with the U.S. Census being conducted this year – today, April 1, is Census Day, although coronavirus-marred collection of data will continue until August 14 – this is an apt time to talk with author Andrew Whitby about censuses past, present and future.

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How Prisoners, Soldiers and Missionaries Complicate the Census

How Prisoners, Soldiers and Missionaries Complicate the Census

There are three groups that have consistently posed problems to the U.S. census throughout history and continue to spark debate to this day: military members, Mormon missionaries and prisoners.

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COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount

COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount

Counties with large universities depend heavily on student responses to the decennial census, because the census counts determine the levels of federal funding communities receive. And if those students are counted as being there …?

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Finding Students: ALA Contributing to the 2020 Census

Finding Students: ALA Contributing to the 2020 Census

 The American Library Association is preparing academic libraries for the U.S. Census — the decennial count of every person living within the […]

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A Century Ago, Congress Dismissed a U.S. Census

A Century Ago, Congress Dismissed a U.S. Census

Census 2020 is far from the first census to set off bitter political fights. One hundred years ago, results from Census 1920 initiated a decadelong struggle about how to allocate a state’s seats in Congress. The political arguments were so bitter that Congress eventually decided they would not use Census 1920 results.

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Research and the Census: Exploring the Labor Force

Research and the Census: Exploring the Labor Force

The concept of the labor force describes a person’s employment status, and like all U.S. Census Bureau definitions, the terminology is quite specific. The labor force consists of all people 16 years of age or older who are working (employed), are not working but are actively seeking work (unemployed)…

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What is Census Data?

What is Census Data?

When most Americans think of the census, they think of the 10-year or decennial census that is used to gather basic data about the total population. The decennial census is an actual count of people and housing units, and it serves as the baseline for measuring and generating other census data-sets…

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