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Testing Our Innovations
Working toward our goal of counting everyone in the census requires a wide variety of interconnected activities.
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Updates to OMB’s Race/Ethnicity Standards
OMB published the results of its review of SPD 15 and issued updated standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data across federal agencies.
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Integrating Our Business Statistics for an Ever-Changing U.S. Economy
Reimagining the flow of economic business data from data respondents to users.
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2030 Census Planning: What 2024 Brings
As we embark on a new year filled with possibilities, it’s time to share exciting updates and innovations that will shape the 2030 Census.
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2022 Economic Census – End of Data Collection
Serving as the cornerstone of the nation’s economic statistics, the economic census is the most comprehensive measure of our nation’s economic activity.
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Protecting Your Data, Our Systems and the Public
At the U.S. Census Bureau, protecting your data and privacy is a top priority.
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Transforming the Census Bureau’s Annual Surveys of Businesses
As part of the Census Bureau’s ongoing commitment to innovation, we are working to reengineer our processes to increase efficiency and improve the data generate
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How the Census Bureau Is Optimizing Its Research and Testing Strategy for the 2030 Census
Today we’re making the first in a series of major announcements about preparations for the 2030 Census.
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Changing Small Habits Can Lead to Transformation
It’s up to all of us to build the Census Bureau of the 21st century – one that provides our users the high-quality data they need to thrive in a changing world.
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2020 Census Program for Evaluations, Experiments, and Assessments
This blog describes the series of formal evaluations and assessments that measure different aspects of census operations and specific challenges.
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Programa de Evaluaciones y Experimentos del Censo del 2020
Este blog describe la serie de evaluaciones formales que miden diferentes aspectos de las operaciones del censo y los desafíos.
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2020 Census Operational Quality Metrics: Sub-State Summaries
Sub-state summaries for each state show the local variation and spread in the operational quality metrics.
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Métricas operacionales de calidad: niveles por debajo de los estados
Los resúmenes a niveles por debajo de los estados para cada estado muestran la variación local en las métricas operacionales de calidad.
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Adapting the American Community Survey Amid COVID-19
We adapted the American Community Survey amid the pandemic to keep both the nation informed, and our staff and the people who respond safe.
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2020 Census Data Review
For the 2020 Census, we are conducting one of the most comprehensive reviews in recent census history.
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Revisión de los datos del Censo del 2020
En este blog hablamos sobre cómo estamos realizando una de las revisiones de datos más completas en la historia reciente del censo, para el Censo del 2020.
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Introduction to Quality Indicators: Operational Metrics
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the first set of results from the 2020 Census. Our goal for every census is to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place.
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2020 Census Group Quarters
As we continue processing 2020 Census results, we’d like to provide more information on how we count people living in group quarters (GQs).
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Finding 'Anomalies' Illustrates 2020 Census Quality Checks Are Working
We’re in the midst of data processing for the 2020 Census. As Acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin acknowledged in a recent blog, we’ve discovered some “anomalies” along the way that we’re looking into and resolving.
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Adaptación de las operaciones de campo para enfrentar desafíos
La oficina del Censo de los EE. UU. compartió información en una publicación de blog el 1 de marzo de 2021, acerca de cómo la realización de un censo es una tarea enorme, incluso en circunstancias ideales.
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Update on 2020 Census Data Processing and Quality
The Census Bureau has begun processing the data collected for the 2020 Census. Data collection for the decennial census is always a herculean task and 2020 was no exception.
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Data to Inform the Public and Decision-Makers During a Global Pandemic
While we have modified some of our work, we have still been able to maintain operations, release our data products, and continue to serve the data user community.
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Why the Census Bureau Is Establishing a "Trust & Safety" Team
The 2020 Census is a nationwide count of all people living in the United States that occurs only once every ten years.
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Defending Democracy
Census Bureau partners with Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program to protect 2020 systems.
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Envisioning 21st-Century Statistics on the Nation
Most of the news coming out of the U.S. Census Bureau lately has, understandably, focused on our preparations for the 2020 Census.
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2020 Census Program Management Review Update
We recently held our final quarterly 2020 Census Program Management Review (PMR) at the U.S. Census Bureau, where we had the chance to update the public and our stakeholders on the progress of the 2020 Census.
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Using GIS Technology in the 2020 Census
Geography is one of the cornerstones of every census and survey the U.S. Census Bureau conducts, providing the framework for statistics, survey design, sample selection, data collection, tabulation and dissemination.
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Census Bureau Adopts Cutting Edge Privacy Protections for 2020 Census
The Census Bureau takes seriously its legal and professional obligation to safeguard the information it gathers from the public.
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The Census Bureau Is Keeping Your Data Safe
Protecting the data the U.S. Census Bureau collects is a critical part of our mission and our highest priority.
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The Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates: A Partnership in Population Expertise
Accurate population estimates matter. Population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau help determine how more than $675 billion in federal dollars are distributed each year.
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