Census
A new report is complicating an unusual finding from the U.S. Census Bureau's own report card on the accuracy of its 2020 head count of the country's population: a national overcount of Asian Americans.
New Report Finds Census Undercounted Certain Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities Despite Marginal Net National Overcount
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Advancing Justice – AAJC Says Communities Continue to Be Missed in the Census – Reducing Resources in the Community and Undermining Political Representation – and Calls for Improvements By Census Bureau to Avoid Future Undercounts
The Quality of the Decennial Census for Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities: An Expanded Approach
The Census is the foundation of our democracy. The U.S. Constitution mandates census data collection to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and to redraw district lines at all levels of government. The government also uses census data to distribute federal and state funding.
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC Submits Comment on Equitable Data to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC submits this comment in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) federal register notice regarding the Request for Information; Equitable Data Engagement and Accountability, 87 FR 54269 (September 2, 2022). Asian Americans and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) comprise vastly diverse racial groups. Without accurate disaggregated data, some of the most disadvantaged in our communities are rendered invisible, leaving their needs unmet.
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Advancing Justice – AAJC Issues Statement on the Post-Enumeration Survey Results from the U.S. Census Bureau
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Washington, DC — July 21, 2020 — The Census Bureau released its first set of results from the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES), which provides the first measures of accuracy for the 2020 Census. The PES independently surveys a sample of the population to help determine the overall accuracy of the census. Today’s results show that at the national level Asian Americans were overcounted at a rate of 2.62%.
Jurisdictions and Languages that Just Missed Coverage in 2021 Section 203 Determinations
See which jurisdictions and languages are close to meeting the Section 203 threshold and may very well meet the threshold during the next determinations scheduled for 2026. These jurisdictions can, and should, proactively begin to provide some level of language assistance to these language groups before the next determinations.