{"id":63654,"date":"2022-04-05T01:09:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63654"},"modified":"2022-04-05T01:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:09:34","slug":"one-more-census-takeaway-the-end-of-an-era-of-counting-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63654","title":{"rendered":"One More Census Takeaway: The End of an Era of Counting the Nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/12\/us\/census-data-counting-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>One More Census Takeaway: The End of an Era of Counting the Nation?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2022-03-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miwine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Michael Wines<\/strong><\/a>, National Correspondent<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/12\/us\/census-data-counting-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 80%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/03\/13\/13census-print1\/merlin_177476619_0d3ae099-49df-4e7f-a1ca-f64892a7dfc3-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 80%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">A census worker takes information from a man during a promotional event in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Times_Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times Square<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City, N.Y.<\/a> in 2020. <em>Brendan Mcdermid\/Reuters<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Some experts are arguing that it\u2019s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WASHINGTON<\/a> \u2014 Beyond the reports of undercounts and overcounts in population totals, there is another takeaway from the post-mortem of 2020 census data issued on Thursday: This could be the last census of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>The next census will be taken in a nation where <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amazon_(company)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> may have a better handle on where many people live than the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Census_Bureau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Bureau<\/a> itself. For some advocates of a more accurate count, the era in which census-takers knock on millions of doors to persuade people to fill out forms should give way in 2030 to a sleeker approach: data mining, surveys, sophisticated statistical projections and, if politics allows, even help from the nation\u2019s tech giants and their endless petabytes of personal information.<\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau itself has yet to leap very far into that new era. But it has hinted recently at a \u201cblended\u201d approach in which official census figures could be supplemented with reliable data from government records and other sources&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/12\/us\/census-data-counting-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts are arguing that it\u2019s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[33403,2544,28280,2640,33404,26981,2327,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-63654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amy-ohara","tag-kenneth-prewitt","tag-michael-wines","tag-new-york-times","tag-steve-jost","tag-terri-ann-lowenthal","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63654","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=63654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63656,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63654\/revisions\/63656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}