{"id":63367,"date":"2022-03-11T01:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63367"},"modified":"2022-03-11T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:01:37","slug":"the-2020-census-had-big-undercounts-of-black-people-latinos-and-native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63367","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 census had big undercounts of Black people, Latinos and Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/10\/1083732104\/2020-census-accuracy-undercount-overcount-data-quality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The 2020 census had big undercounts of Black people, Latinos and Native Americans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2022-03-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hansilowang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hansi Lo Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/10\/1083732104\/2020-census-accuracy-undercount-overcount-data-quality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 95%;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/03\/07\/2020-09-23t193322z_1782379815_rc2j4j99sjte_rtrmadp_3_usa-census-edit_custom-56bcd089cc8ac72abc6b87e5879a5bec2078072e-s1800-c85.webp\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 95%;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Census_Bureau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Bureau<\/a> worker waits to gather information from people during a 2020 census promotional event in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Brendan McDermid\/Reuters<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1083732104\/1085838513\" width=\"95%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2022\/2020-census-estimates-of-undercount-and-overcount.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Latinos were left out of the 2020 census at more than three times the rate of a decade earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Among Native Americans living on reservations and Black people, the net undercount rates were numerically higher but not statistically different from the 2010 rates.<\/p>\n<p>People who identified as white and not Latino were overcounted at almost double the rate in 2010. Asian Americans were also overcounted. The bureau said based on its estimates, it&#8217;s unclear how well the 2020 tally counted Pacific Islanders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or listen to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/10\/1083732104\/2020-census-accuracy-undercount-overcount-data-quality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a report the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,3015,26,20],"tags":[24986,21057,16984,2309,2833,33218,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-63367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-hansi-lo-wang","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-timothy-kennel","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367","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=63367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63390,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367\/revisions\/63390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}