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Why Did I Receive A Census Bureau Survey With A Citizenship Question? : NPR

You won't see a citizenship question on the 2020 census. After a more than year-long legal fight, three federal judges are making sure of that by permanently blocking the Trump administration from using next year's head count to ask about the U.S. citizenship status of every person living in every household in the country.

But the Census Bureau, which conducts more than 100 surveys for the federal government, is continuing to ask about citizenship on other forms, which have sparked plenty of confusion around the country.

Unlike the census, these surveys collect responses from only a sample of households, and their results produce anonymized citizenship data that the government has relied on for years to, for example, protect the voting rights of racial minorities. Controversy over the question the Trump administration failed to add to the 2020 census, however, has drawn extra attention to these other citizenship questions.

IPUMS – Changes to Census Bureau Data Products

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IPUMS – Changes to Census Bureau Data Products

"The Census Bureau has a long history of protecting the confidentiality of respondents to the census and the American Community Surveys. As part of current confidentiality protection, the Census Bureau “adds noise” to data products in ways they cannot release. The proposed new disclosure avoidance system using differential privacy is purported to be more open and transparent to users. But the new system may come with a significant trade-off in data accuracy, making the public data useless for many applications. We are following this conversation, and we will share relevant information from the Census Bureau and others as it is released."

How Americans Self-Sort Themselves by Age and Class

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How Americans Self-Sort Themselves by Age and Class

"The Sunbelt is growing, the Rust Belt is dying, and the only thing keeping expensive coastal cities afloat is international immigration, as American-born residents flee their escalating housing prices."

"That pretty much sums up the conventional wisdom about the recent growth and decline of U.S. cities. And that conventional wisdom was only reinforced last month when the Census Bureau released its latest figures on population growth for America’s metropolitan areas. Nine of the top 10 counties with the largest numeric increase in population last year were in the Sunbelt, with the one exception being King County, where Seattle is located."

"But the conventional wisdom masks a deeper trend: America’s geography continues to be reshaped by a polarized pattern of socioeconomic sorting. This process is driven by a selective population shift of the most affluent, the best-educated, and the young to expensive coastal metros like the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, and the New York–Boston–Washington corridor, with the less affluent and less educated flowing into cheaper Sunbelt metros, and the even less advantaged trapped in Rust Belt areas."
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