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Update / 2020 Census asks 10 questions and takes about 10 minutes to answer

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Above / 2020 Census Day is April 1. Be counted. Your responses are safe, secure and protected by federal law. Respond online, by mail or by phone. If you don’t respond, you’ll be visited by a Census-taker who will ask the same 10 questions. By law, your responses cannot be used against you. Spread the word to family, friends and neighbors.
 
The key message right now is that it’s has never been easier to respond to the Census on your own, whether online, over the phone at (301) 763-3030 or by email at pio@census.gov—all without having to meet a census taker.
 
Remember! The U.S. Constitution requires a national census once every 10 years to count the population and determine the number of seats each state will have in the U.S. House of Representatives. 
 
Thank you.

2020 US Census Self Response daily updates as of Tues., March 24, 2020

 
Check your mail! Census request via mail should have arrived last week.

The Self Response rate is:

National – 26.2%
Illinois – 29.2%
 
Naperville – 36.3%
Will Co – 31.6%
DuPage Co – 33.7%
 
Surrounding cities:
Aurora – 28.7%
Bolingbrook – 33.1%
Lisle – 33.0%
Warrenville – 38.1%
Plainfield – 34.8%
 
“We’re doing great, but we still have 63.7% to go to attain our 100% goal,” emailed Mark R. Rice, Liaison- Complete Count Committee, 2020 US Census, City of Naperville.
 
With the current health Covid 19 “stay at home” order in effect, it is imperative to use social media to continue to get the word out.
 
Rice suggests that everyone “copy and add the link to your website, FB page, Twitter feed, email and any other communication vehicle that you and your organization uses.”

https://2020census.gov/en.html

 

March 16, 2020: From 2020 Census Operations

The U.S. Census Bureau continues to carefully monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and follow the guidance of federal, state, and local health authorities.

Some operations have been adjusted as outlined below with two key principles in mind: protecting the health and safety of our staff and the public, and fulfilling our statutory requirement to deliver the 2020 Census counts to the President on schedule. 

As of March 15, 2020, over 5 million have responded online to the 2020 Census. Currently, the planned completion date for data collection for the 2020 Census is July 31, 2020, but that date can and will be adjusted if necessary as the situation dictates in order to achieve a complete and accurate count. 

It has never been easier to respond on your own, whether online, over the phone or by mail—all without having to meet a census taker.

Make sure college students are counted

  • College students living in on-campus housing are counted through their university as part of our Group Quarters operation, which counts all students living in university-owned housing. In addition to college dormitories, the Group Quarters operation also includes places like nursing homes, group homes, halfway houses and prisons.  
  • During our recent 2020 Census Group Quarters Advance Contact operation, we contacted administrators of college/university student housing to get their input on the enumeration methods that will allow students to participate in the 2020 Census. 
  • The majority, about 47 percent, chose the eResponse methodology and about 7 percent chose paper listings, both of which provide the Census Bureau directory information (electronically or via paper records) about each student. About 35 percent, however, chose drop-off/pick-up, which allows students to self-respond using an Individual Census Questionnaire (or ICQ). We are contacting those schools to ask whether they would like to change that preference in light of the emerging situation.  
  • In general, students in colleges and universities temporarily closed due to COVID-19 will still be counted as part of this process. Even if they are home on Census Day, April 1, they should be counted according to the residence criteria that states they should be counted where they live and sleep most of the time. We are asking schools to contact their students and remind them to respond. 
  • Per the Census Bureau’s residence criteria, students living away from home at school should be counted at school in most cases, even if they are temporarily elsewhere due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Group housing administrators urged to count residents

  • The 2020 Census is designed to offer multiple ways to respond. We’re encouraging administrators of group housing to choose a way to count their residents that requires less in-person contact. 
  • For the Group Quarters operation, which counts people in nursing homes, college dorms, prisons, and other institutional living facilities, we offer a myriad of ways to respond, such as via eResponse, paper listing, or self-enumeration by the facility.
  • We’re contacting all group quarters administrators that have requested an in-person visit and asking them to consider an eResponse or offering to drop off and later pick up paper forms to minimize in-person contact with our census staff. 

Service providers asked to help plan best way forward

  • We are working with service providers at emergency and transitional shelters, soup kitchens, and regularly scheduled mobile food vans to adapt plans to count the populations they serve.
  • The plan has been to interview each person served a meal or staying at the facility at a date and time the service providers choose between March 30 and April 1.
  • We are now contacting the service providers to determine whether they will be open between March 30 and April 1 and whether they would be able to provide a paper listing of census response data for each person served or staying at the facility instead.

Mobile Questionnaire Assistance program start is delayed

  • We plan to offer assistance with responding to the 2020 Census at events and locations where people naturally gather as part of our Mobile Questionnaire Assistance.
  • We now plan to offer this assistance fully across the country on April 13, delaying from the previously planned start of March 30.

Early Non-response Followup operation is delayed

In this operation, census takers begin following up with households that haven’t responded yet around some colleges and universities. By starting early, we can count households in areas with off-campus housing before the end of the spring semester when students may leave for another residence. We’re delaying the start of this effort from April 9 to April 23, 2020.

The Census Bureau is also making changes to its paid media campaign, earned media efforts, and partnership outreach efforts to adapt to changing conditions while continuing to promote self-response.

Participate in 2020 Census online, over the phone or by email

The key message right now for anyone with questions about how COVID-19 will affect the 2020 Census: It has never been easier to respond on your own, whether online, over the phone at (301) 763-3030 or by email at pio@census.gov—all without having to meet a census taker.

According to Rice, the 2020 Census will continue to monitor the situation, take appropriate steps in consultation with public health authorities, and provide ongoing updates.

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