decennial

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First, Robert L. Santos, the new director of the Census Bureau, can immediately adopt the revised race and ethnicity census question format so that all future research — including the interim surveys that supplement the decennial count — will allow Latinos to better identify themselves.

From Los Angeles Times

Next, Congress must establish a task force to examine the issue of Census Bureau integrity, with the goal of shielding the decennial count from overt political manipulation.

From Los Angeles Times

The decennial count must never again be held hostage to presidential whims.

From Los Angeles Times

While the census generally overcounts Whites and undercounts minorities, the discrepancies were higher in 2020 than in 2010, according to the bureau’s post-enumeration survey, a resurvey of randomly selected geographic areas the bureau conducts after each decennial census.

From Washington Post

The Supreme Court in 2019 halted the Trump administration’s plans to ask U.S. residents on the decennial questionnaire whether they are citizens, which some advocacy groups said would dissuade minorities from answering the census.

From Fox News