DATA GEMS: How is Your Community Responding to the 2020 Census in Comparison to Other Areas?

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DATA GEMS: How is Your Community Responding to the 2020 Census in Comparison to Other Areas?

May 01, 2020

If you would like to track how your community is responding to the 2020 Census and how it is ranking in comparison to other areas, this Data Gem will introduce you to the 2020 Census Response Rate Map Rankings Dashboard.

Our data visualization guru, Gerson Vasquez, will teach you how to visualize daily updates for your area of self-response rates for households that have self-responded to the 2020 Census (online, by phone or by mail) beginning mid-March.

You can use this to promote a complete and accurate count by increasing the self-response rate in your community. You will be able to search for response rates for states, counties, cities and census tracts; and compare it to final 2010 Census response rates and previous day-by-day 2020 response rates.

2020 Census response rate data are available in the Census Bureau's public Application Programming Interface (API).

To learn how to use the API, watch www.census.gov/data/academy/data-gems/2018/api.html.

Here are some helpful resources:

Visit www.census.gov/academy and subscribe Send questions and feedback to ResponseRateMap@census.gov

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