A Trump push to cut 'statistical noise' could mean less data from the Census Bureau

New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can ...
Los Angeles Times

The Census is changing its categories on race and ethnicity. Here’s what that means for Latinos

The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.
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Innovation Aided Completion of 2020 Census, But Coverage and Data Quality Issues Persist

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Census Bureau plans 2030 count as 2020 lawsuit continues

The Census Bureau is planning for 2030, making decisions that will shape the distribution of federal funding that topped $2.
Wired

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on ...
Nature

Fine-grained population mapping from coarse census counts and open geodata

In this strategy, used by several works in the literature 6,24,25, the census data at the finest available level are reserved exclusively for performance evaluation. First, the available census data ...
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Innovation Aided Completion of 2020 Census, But Coverage and Data Quality Issues Persist

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Census Bureau’s ability to adjust its approaches and innovate enabled it to complete the 2020 census despite the difficulties raised by the COVID pandemic and other challenges, ...