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Census 2020: Make it count!APA INDIANA STATE CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Community Research Institute•Founded in 1982
•Housed within Public Policy Department
•Focus on workforce and economic development, local government, public health, non-profits
•Quantitative and qualitative contract-based research services
Disclaimer
I’m a lawyer, but I’m not
YOUR lawyer
CCounting everyone once, only once, and in the right place
Constitutional requirementArt. 1 Sec 2: The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten YearsDepartment of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives, 525 US 316 (1999)Holding: Statistical sample to remedy undercount of certain populations in place of true headcount violates Census Act
Census history, legal protectionsFirst census 1790 and held every decade thereafter
Title 13: No identifiable information from census forms can be released, including law enforcement; all data only used for statistical purposes
72-year rule: All records released from that census1950 census data to be released in 2022
How Census data are used
Legislative redistrictingCongressional reapportionment
Statistical backbone for other Census Bureau products
Federal funding allocated by population
$800 billion at stake
Population-based fundingMedicaid, CHIPSNAP, WICHead StartSection 8 housing choice vouchersChildcare vouchersState Councils on Developmental Disabilities
Title 1, special education grants to schoolsNational School Lunch programHealth Center programsFederal foster care programVocational Rehabilitation state grants
Census 2020 timelineCurrently: Area census offices open across countryJanuary 2020: Population count starts in remote AlaskaMarch 12, 2020: Internet self-response opensApril 1, 2020: Official census day (Wednesday)
Count where you are living on this dayAll addresses should receive their census information by this date
April 2020: Census takers visit “group quarters” More on upcoming slide
Census 2020 timeline continuedMay 2020: Door knocking to those who have not responded
July 31, 2020: Self-response period ends
December 2020: Census delivers apportionment counts to President, Congress
March 31, 2021: Redistricting counts to states
Group quarters, service-based enumerationGROUP QUARTERSGroup homes
Skilled-nursing facilities (nursing homes)
Student housing, including residence halls, sorority/fraternity houses
Correctional institutions (jails, prisons)
Residential treatment facilities
Religious group living quarters
In-patient hospice facilities
SERVICE-BASEDEmergency, transitional overnight shelters for people experiencing homelessness
Includes hotels, motels used for long-term housing
Regularly scheduled mobile food vans
Targeted non-sheltered outdoor locations
Soup kitchens
Census 2020 questionsApplies to all people regardless of citizenship, legal statusNumber of people living in the house on April 1, 2010
Living and sleeping there “most of the time”
Whether home is owned or rentedSex of each personAge of each personRace, ethnicity of each personRelationships of people living within the home
More clearly identify same-sex couples
Will not ask for:• Social Security Number• Money, bank account information• Anything on behalf of political
parties
Census 2020 response optionsThree ways:
1. By mail (print surveys in English, Spanish)
2. By phone
3. Online, including smartphones and tablets
Online response languagesAvailable in 13 languages:
1. Arabic
2. Chinese (simplified)
3. English
4. French
5. Haitian Creole
6. Japanese
7. Korean
8. Polish
9. Portuguese
10.Russian
11.Spanish
12.Tagalog
13.VietnamesePhone adds Mandarin,
Cantonese, TDD
Census Bureau language guidesAvailable in 59 non-English languages:Albanian, American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Gujurati, Greek, Haitian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesia, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Navajo, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Yorub
Languages spoken in your communityACS data: Table B16001
Small populations subject to large margins of error
Local schools’ language minority population dataNot listed on DOE Compass, reach out to school corporation
Internet access and Census 2020First time for online decennial census responses
About 20% of Indiana households do NOT have high speed internet access at home (includes smartphones)
Online responses with ID code or by address
Smartphone, tablet friendly interface
Can still call or mail response
How to count special populationsCollege students: Count where they live or sleep most of the time, even if visiting home that day; includes international students
Studying abroad this semester? Don’t count in 2020 census
Hospital patients: Count at residence, including newborn babiesNursing homes, long-term care:: Count at care facility
Special populations continuedIncarcerated persons: Count full population on April 1Homeless shelters: Count whomever living there April 1Military personnel housed at military installations: Make sure barracks, other group quarters counted Temporary overseas deployment: Usual home address in United StatesChildren who split time between homes: Where living April 1
Hard-to-count census tractsWho doesn’t mail in their forms (or call) (or go online)…
82.2% of Indiana’s households mailed back questionnaire in 2010
Leaving 17.8% as hard to count
About 7% of Indiana’s
population lives in HTC tracts
Maps, shapefiles at Censushardtocount2020.us
Indiana’s HTC tracts in urban, university counties
HTC framework
•Highly mobile•Homelessness•Physical barriers like
gated communities
•Suspicious of government
•Low levels of civic engagement
•Certain housing units •Persons wanting to
remain hidden
•Language barriers•Low literacy•Lack of internet
access
Hard to interview
Hard to locate
Hard to contact
Hard to persuade
Populations at risk of undercountRacial, ethnic minoritiesPeople who do not speak fluent EnglishLow-income householdsHomelessNon-citizens without legal statusPeople with disabilities
Young mobile adultsThose living in nontraditional housingChildrenPeople who are angry at, distrust governmentLower educational attainmentLGBTQ populations
Children under 5Highest net undercount of any age group in Census 2010
4.6% or 2.2 million childrenHigher undercount for black, Hispanic children Continues to get worse over time
Why?Significant share in HTC tractsLive in large, complex households
25% in households of 6 or more40% live in complex householdsIndiana: 9.4% of 420,939 Hoosiers
under 5 live in HTC census tracts
Low-income households, rentersChallenges:
Tend to be rentersMultiunit buildingsTransient living arrangementsOften people of colorLower educational attainmentLower rates of internet access at homeLack of administrative data
Black, African-American populationsHistorically undercounted population, especially for children and men
Significant share live in HTC census tracts
Higher rates of poverty
Larger share of “housing insecure” populations than nation as a whole
Indiana: 25.5% of 678,881 black or African-American Hoosiers live in HTC census tracts
Hispanic, Latino populationsOne of the fastest growing populations
Large numbers of young children
Multifactoral challenges for accurate count:
Language barrierPovertyLower educational attainmentImmigration status
Indiana: 22% of 421,206 Hispanic/Latino Hoosiers live in HTC census tracts
Local efforts: Complete Count CommitteesUse local knowledge, influence, resources for targeted outreach efforts
Coordinate local efforts across disciplines
Still time to form CCC for Census 2020
Statewide CCC: Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch leading Indiana’s CCC
Potential community partners for CCCLocal schools
Social service agencies serving historically undercounted populations
Libraries
Universities, colleges
Chamber of commerce
Faith-based organizations
City, county government
Township government
Media representatives
Housing representatives
Look for people, organizations with relationships, trust with
HTC populations
Census 2020 informationhttps://www.2020census.gov/partners
http://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us/
http://www.census.indiana.edu/ccc/local.html
http://www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/democracy/census/
https://censuscounts.org/
Questions?
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Fort Wayne, IN 46802
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