1. What question will be added to the Census in 2020?
It will ask people to say which people in the household are citizens.
2. How does the government justify this addition?
They say it will give more information about the United States.
They say it will give more information about the United States.
3. Why do people have a problem with this addition?
It could decrease the responses of people who are immigrants, particularly those who are not legal residents, of the United States and thus give an inaccurate count of population while allocating funding and determining congressional districts.
It could decrease the responses of people who are immigrants, particularly those who are not legal residents, of the United States and thus give an inaccurate count of population while allocating funding and determining congressional districts.
4. Why is it important to states that the undocumented immigrants that live there answer the Census?
5. What limit is put on the Census bureau to prevent the problems people are concerned about?
6. How are both critics of Trump and the Trump administration technically correct about this particular question on the Census?
In previous years, the question about citizenship has appeared on a survey that is only sent to a small percentage of Americans, just not on the main census that most people receive.
7. What does the Dept of Justice say is the reason it needs this citizenship information?
They say such knowledge will help them enforce the Voter Rights Act.
They say such knowledge will help them enforce the Voter Rights Act.
8. How is Congress's power of the purse affecting the Census?
Congress sometimes does not give the Census Bureau enough money to conduct full scale field tests.
Congress sometimes does not give the Census Bureau enough money to conduct full scale field tests.
9. If the Census won't actually share information, why do Democrats care if this question is included?
People, especially undocumented immigrants, who fear and avoid government interactions will be even less likely to respond.
People, especially undocumented immigrants, who fear and avoid government interactions will be even less likely to respond.
10. How does this article explain the actual ground work of the Census happens? (How do they actually count people?)
They mail out the census. They send people to the doors of people who do not respond to get their response in person. If no one every answers the door, they talk to the neighbor and see what they know. As a last resort, they assume the silent houses' residents are similar to their neighbors.
They mail out the census. They send people to the doors of people who do not respond to get their response in person. If no one every answers the door, they talk to the neighbor and see what they know. As a last resort, they assume the silent houses' residents are similar to their neighbors.
11. What groups have been undercounted in past attempts at the Census?
People who do not live at a permanent address are undercounted as are undocumented immigrants. African American males were undercounted in the last two censuses.
People who do not live at a permanent address are undercounted as are undocumented immigrants. African American males were undercounted in the last two censuses.
12. Why is it strange that a question is being added this close to the administration of the actual Census?
Typically, the census questions undergo a lengthy pretesting process, but the census has been past that development stage already.
Typically, the census questions undergo a lengthy pretesting process, but the census has been past that development stage already.
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