The coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States just as the 2020 census got underway, causing an unprecedented disruption of operations and raising questions about the extent of undercounts or ...

Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years. By K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina Oct. 16, 2023 Since 1790, ...

ALBANY — In March 2020, hundreds of thousands of people were preparing to fan out across the country to knock on doors to collect data for the federal government’s pivotal, once-a-decade population ...

This March 18, 2020 photo taken in Idaho shows a form for the U.S. Census 2020. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Community advocates and census experts are working to ensure the next once-a-decade count of the U.S.

The coronavirus pandemic, hurricanes and political attitudes might have contributed to an undercount in six states, mostly in the South. The census likely overcounted in eight others. By Michael Wines ...

Walter Reynolds Farley receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development prior to 2010. I was a summer intern at the Census Bureau ...