The Center for Poverty and Inequality (CPI) at Georgetown Law recently released a series of guides “on census accuracy for civil rights organizations, advocates, and policymakers” to educate them on “the key concepts and methods” for interpreting census results and pushing “for improvements that lead to a fairer count.”
The first guide “covers essential concepts, such as net and gross accuracy and differential undercounts,” the second “describes the Bureau’s main evaluation methods: Demographic Analysis and the Post-Enumeration Survey” and the third “summarizes accuracy trends from the 2020 Census and previous counts.”
CPI’s guides aim to help “advocates and organizations” make the case “for necessary research and reforms to ensure every community is accurately counted” and “robust” census funding “emphasizing the need for accurate data to help ensure fair political representation and equitable resource distribution.” They also are intended to help with mitigation of “the impact of census inaccuracies.”
Census Accuracy Guides
The Center for Poverty and Inequality (CPI) at Georgetown Law recently released a series of guides “on census accuracy for civil rights organizations, advocates, and policymakers” to educate them on “the key concepts and methods” for interpreting census results and pushing “for improvements that lead to a fairer count.”
The first guide “covers essential concepts, such as net and gross accuracy and differential undercounts,” the second “describes the Bureau’s main evaluation methods: Demographic Analysis and the Post-Enumeration Survey” and the third “summarizes accuracy trends from the 2020 Census and previous counts.”
CPI’s guides aim to help “advocates and organizations” make the case “for necessary research and reforms to ensure every community is accurately counted” and “robust” census funding “emphasizing the need for accurate data to help ensure fair political representation and equitable resource distribution.” They also are intended to help with mitigation of “the impact of census inaccuracies.”
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