{"id":56070,"date":"2018-03-31T01:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56070"},"modified":"2018-03-31T01:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:51:01","slug":"census-bureaus-own-expert-panel-rebukes-decision-to-add-citizenship-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56070","title":{"rendered":"Census Bureau\u2019s Own Expert Panel Rebukes Decision to Add Citizenship Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/30\/us\/census-bureau-citizenship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Census Bureau\u2019s Own Expert Panel Rebukes Decision to Add Citizenship Question<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2018-03-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miwine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Michael Wines<\/strong><\/a>, National Correspondent<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/30\/us\/census-bureau-citizenship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/03\/31\/us\/31census\/merlin_136086270_649ff75b-c065-4992-b084-9709831b40fc-master768.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/about\/cac\/sac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Bureau panel<\/a> denounced the decision this week to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, saying it would depress the response.<br \/>\n<em>Ross D. Franklin\/Associated Press<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2018\/03\/26\/us\/politics\/26reuters-usa-census.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision to add a question on citizenship<\/a> to the 2020 census, already the target of lawsuits and broad criticism by statistics authorities, drew a new opponent on Friday: the experts who advise the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Bureau<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n<p>Those experts \u2014 prominent demographers, economists, engineers and others who make up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/about\/cac\/sac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Scientific Advisory Committee<\/a> \u2014 said in a statement that the decision was based on \u201cflawed logic,\u201d could threaten the accuracy and confidentiality of the head count and likely would make it more expensive to conduct.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, addressed to the acting Census Bureau director, Ron Jarmin, the committee also said it worried about the \u201cimplications for attitudes about the Census Bureau,\u201d an allusion to fears that the latest move jeopardized the bureau\u2019s nonpartisan reputation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/30\/us\/census-bureau-citizenship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s decision to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, already the target of lawsuits and broad criticism by statistics authorities, drew a new opponent on Friday: the experts who advise the Census Bureau itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[28282,28283,28280,2640,28281,2327,28285,2546,5367,28284],"class_list":["post-56070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-census-scientific-advisory-committee","tag-d-sunshine-hillygus","tag-michael-wines","tag-new-york-times","tag-ron-jarmin","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-timothy-olson","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau","tag-wilbur-l-ross-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56071,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56070\/revisions\/56071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}