In a Fox Business op-ed earlier this month, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross insisted the shortened time frame has not hurt census efforts. Ross said the agency has made several advances in the use of administrative records, including identifying vacant units more quickly, that will help the count.
“Additionally, the Census Bureau has leveraged existing sources of administrative records more than ever before and is using them more efficiently,” he said.
This year’s shortened schedule could leave many communities inconsistently counted — a problem the agency would have trouble fixing through administrative records, said former Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt, who oversaw the 2000 census.
“When you have this enormous lumpiness, unevenness, it is going to move a lot of money,” he said. “Everybody above that average is going to get more of the money, that $1.5 trillion or whatever it is, than they should, and everyone who is below that average will get less.”
The agency also has other steps to count people who have not responded, including proxies — like interviewing a neighbor — and statistical imputation. There, the Census Bureau infers the count of people in a household based on the makeup of similar households.
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