Perilous time for the 2020 census. Troubling, there were reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trump about significant problems that will delay the delivery of census data to late january or early february. After these reports became public, the director of the census, dr. Steven billingham, issued a Public Statement confirming problems were found, but provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to our committee before we write about them in the press or before the census director made his Public Statement. Committee has jurisdiction, but nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about these problems or delays. For these reasons, the committee wrote a letter to the Census Bureau november 19. We asked for documents career officials prepared describing these data problems and the resulting delays. We also requested documents repaired for the department of commerce, including the commerce secretary
Are my own and not to be attributed to the trustees. Of the census accuracy is deeper and more complex than the latest chapter on anomalies. These are problems yet to be found reveal the consequences and risks. To help illustrate the challenges of 2020 census accuracy, i start with Research Conducted by Diana Elliott and i last year to explore 2020 census outcomes. This was precovid. We chose three risk scenarios and used Census Bureau research to simulate 2020 counts. The most optimistic scenario mimicked the performance of the 2010 census, which came in 0001 of population estimate. When we overlaid that performance over the 2020 projection, we discovered a net undercount of the population of 3 . Stated differently, had the pandemic never happened, people of color are historically undercounted, and our wonderful nation, have become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years. While this 2010 census was accurate for the total u. S. Population, it came at the expense of
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Today i want to think the witnesses for their ongoing cooperation. You and your staff have been excellent partners in this oversight and doctor, i want to thank you for your work preparing for the census. I learned from my district staff earlier this month that you toured langley park in maryland. These are diverse high density area with a high concentration of immigrants and i appreciate you coming out in my district director met with your staff and was encouraged by the preparation so i want to thank you and your staff for your hard work. That is ongoing and we have a lot to accomplish and we spent a lot of the last year embattled in the Citizenship Question now that the administration has been forced to stand down the bureau must devote all available resources to repairing the damage of this effort in getting us back on track and completing an accurate account in 2020. The move to pose the question has been rejected by the courts is arbitrary and i fear it could be and they do not r
I want to start by welcoming a new member to the subcommittee as well as a new member to the oversight fred keller who comes from pennsylvania 12. Welcome. Also, without objection i want to wave onto the subcommittee today i want to think the witnesses for their ongoing cooperation. You and your staff have been excellent partners in this oversight and doctor, i want to thank you for your work preparing for the census. I learned from my district staff earlier this month that you toured langley park in maryland. These are diverse high density area with a high concentration of immigrants and i appreciate you coming out in my district director met with your staff and was encouraged by the preparation so i want to thank you and your staff for your hard work. That is ongoing and we have a lot to accomplish and we spent a lot of the last year embattled in the Citizenship Question now that the administration has been forced to stand down the bureau must devote all available resources to repair