A new report says the U.S. Census Bureau’s career staffers valiantly conducted the 2020 census under unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic
FILE - A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla.While the U.S. Census Bureau valiantly conducted the 2020 census, which determines political power and federal funding, under unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, it harmed the resulting data with a new privacy mechanism meant to protect the confidentiality of participants, according to a new report released Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. The U.S.
The once-a-decade head count determines how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets and aids in the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual spending by the federal government. At the same time, the introduction of the new privacy method, which added intentional errors, or “noise,” to the data to protect participants' confidentiality, was introduced late in the 2020 census planning process and wasn't properly tested and deployed in the context of a census, according to the report.
The panel also found an excess reporting of people's ages ending in “0” or “5," something known as “age heaping.” The growth in age heaping in 2020 was likely from census takers interviewing neighbors or landlords, if they couldn't reach members of a household. Age heaping usually reflects an age being misreported and raises red flags about data quality.
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