January 28, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Aims to Deliver State Population Totals by April 30 Census Bureau officials said that the agency hopes to deliver state population totals to the commerce secretary by April 30, the original date the bureau set after the count was delayed because of the coronavirus. NEWS Memorandum on Restoring Trust […]
January 21, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham Announces Retirement Dr. Dillingham wrote a message to the Bureau staff and expressed his heartfelt appreciation for their extraordinary accomplishments, especially those related to the successful 2020 Census. The Director also posted a blog which further responds to recent published comments and media reports regarding census […]
January 14, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Stops Work On Trump’s Request For Unauthorized Immigrant Count The U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on President Trump’s directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants that would have been used to alter a key set of census numbers, NPR has learned. NEWS Statement by Former […]
January 7, 2021 FEATURES Attorney Says Census Count to Determine Congressional Seats Won’t Be Done Until February An attorney in President Trump?s administration said that the census count to determine how many congressional seats each state gets will not be completed until February. NEWS U.S. Census Bureau Receives Final Fiscal Year 2021 Funding Level Pew […]
December 17, 2020 FEATURES House Oversight Panel Subpoenas Wilbur Ross for Census Records The House Oversight and Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, for documents concerning errors in finalizing 2020 census results. APDU Weekly Takes a Break for the Holidays The next issue of APDU Weekly […]
December 10, 2020 FEATURES Census Bureau Announces Quality Assessments for 2020 Census The U.S. Census Bureau announced updated plans for releasing information about quality along with the first results from the census, including releasing an unprecedented number of data quality indicators. APDU Business Meeting and Town Hall Monday, December 14, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:30 […]
Candidate for President: Mary Jo Hoeksema Since January 2004, Mary Jo Hoeksema has been the Director of Government Affairs for the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers. In addition to representing PAA and APC, Ms. Hoeksema has co-directed The Census Project since 2008. Prior to her position with PAA/APC, Ms. Hoeksema worked at […]
Continue ReadingNovember 19, 2020 FEATURES Census Case That Led to Head Count Halt Heads Back to Court A month after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident, the case that propelled the ruling was back in a district court Friday, with advocacy groups and the Trump […]
November 12, 2020 FEATURES Update on 2020 Census Data Processing and Quality The Census Bureau has begun processing the data collected for the 2020 Census. Data collection for the decennial census is always a herculean task and 2020 was no exception. NEWS October 2020 Census Project Update Census Bureau Denies Allegations by Workers of Falsifying […]
November 5, 2020 FEATURES APDU Training: Fundamentals of Data Science and Visualization November 9 ? 19, 2020 Learn how to clean and format data in Excel, create interactive dashboards in Tableau, and clean and visualize data in R. This course will help participants identify use-cases for each software package that maximize impact with minimal effort, […]