Faced with federal judge orders over the weekend that the Trump administration halted its plans to end individual census efforts for the 2020 census, at least eight states have yet to see their response rate exceed 80 percent.
On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Cohe in the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order, restraining the U.S. Census Bureau from shortening its previously extended deadline for data collection.
‘Incredible loss’
Before the coronavirus outbreak, the 2020 census was expected to take place by the end of July.
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Amid the epidemic, however, the bureau said more time would be needed to collect and process the data and pushed back the deadline of October 31 with the public support of President Donald Trump.
Despite the president’s explicit approval of the expansion, in August Gust, the bureau announced plans to step up efforts to wrap up data collection by September 30, warning civil rights advocates, who warned of an incomplete calculation of the damage, could fall on vulnerable communities. .
Koh said on Saturday that insufficient data collection would cause “irreparable harm” to U.S. residents, adding that there was an increased risk of sudden migration.
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“Because the ten-year census is underway here, the miscalculation will not be remedied for another decade, which will affect the distribution of federal and state funds, the deployment of services and the allocation of local resources for a decade,” Koh writes. , According to NPR.
The judge’s order will remain in force until the September 17 hearing of a request for a court order, which will force the Census Bureau to continue its calculation efforts until the end of October.
Who counts
According to the most online data released by the Census Bureau, more than 0 per cent housing units have been identified in most states as the census efforts continue.
As of Sunday, Idaho had the highest percentage of housing units counted, with 98.1 percent of households either self-responding (68.8 percent) or participating in non-responsive follow-up (29.3 percent.)
West Virginia, Washington, Kansas, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Massachusetts, California, Utah, Arkansas and more than 18 percent were identified. Maryland.
The two states with the lowest response rates, including self-response and non-responsive follow-ups, were the southeastern states of Alabama and Georgia.
As of Sunday, Alabama had the lowest response rate, with 77.9 percent of the housing unit participating, with 62.1 percent self-responding and 15.9 percent responding through non-response follow-up.
In Georgia, 78.1 percent of housing units responded, with .70..7 self-responding and 17.4 participating through non-response follow-up.
The response rate is also below 80 percent in Louisiana, South Carolina, New Mexico, Mississippi, Montana and Arizona.
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