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 Check Out the 2020 Census Response Rate Map!
Encourage your students and the adults in their home to check out our response rate map to stay up to date on how many people in their community are responding to the 2020 Census. This interactive map tracks the percentage of households that have responded to the 2020 Census in each state, county, city, town, congressional district, and tribal area. It also compares this percentage to the national response rate.
Response rate tracking can motivate families to complete the 2020 Census and encourage their friends and family in other homes to complete it too. The 2020 Census has begun, so now is the perfect time to deliver this message. Here are some ideas you can share with your students and their families for using the response rate map at home. They can:
- Check the map each day for the latest completion rates for their state or community, and create a chart or other graphic to track the increases. Remind students that they can impact the rate by showing an adult in their home the take-home flyer and asking them to complete the census.
- Track how their community’s response rate compares to the rate of other communities in the state, or compare their state to other states.
- Use social media to encourage friends and family to complete the 2020 Census. They can motivate others by sharing the response rate map, declaring that their home has already completed the census, and using images created by the Census Bureau for sharing on social media. If your students are too young to have their own social media accounts, be sure to specify that this should be done by an adult.
Feel free to add ideas of your own. The best approach is the one that will motivate the most people to respond to the 2020 Census. In this competition, everyone ends up a winner!
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