Introduction to Quality Indicators: Operational Metrics
By Jennifer Ortman, Principal Demographer, and Maryann Chapin, Decennial Census Programs Directorate
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the first set of results from the 2020 Census. Our goal for every census is to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place.
While we know that no census is perfect, how will we know if the 2020 Census results are good enough for their constitutional purpose and their many other uses? The answer to this question is perhaps more important than ever before because of the unprecedented challenges this census faced.
To answer this question, we are engaged in several efforts to assess the quality of the census data (as we do after each census). We’ve previously described these efforts in more detail. Continue Reading...
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