Thank you, and Here’s What’s Next.
Written by: Robert L. Santos, Director
Last fall, we eagerly announced that the U.S. Census Bureau actively sought your ideas for a better 2030 Census. This outreach represented an important part of our overall commitment to engaging with stakeholders, tribes, partners and communities. We hope outreach efforts like this help illustrate that we are living our values, which in this case include scientific integrity, inclusivity and transparency. This represented but one way that the voices of diverse constituencies and communities across our nation can be heard.
I am pleased to report that we received a tremendous response! Over 8,000 comments were registered from people across the country. The comments focused on advancing our upcoming 2030 Census operational plan, overall. There was also special attention to the enumeration of historically undercounted populations.
In our 2030 Census Federal Register Notice (FRN), we invited you to share feedback on five areas: reaching folks and motivating participation, leveraging technology, identifying new data sources, ways to contact respondents, and support services to facilitate completing the census form.
You fully embraced this opportunity and provided valuable feedback on various aspects of the census, even areas beyond the five we provided. The breadth of your contributions led us to expand the response areas by three. We added: questionnaire content, field operational management, and a miscellaneous category that assembles the remaining contributions whose topical counts were too few to warrant a single category.
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