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With the 2020 Census fact approaching, both the Census Bureau and outside stakeholders are working to ensure that the Census is fair and accurate. In turn, both groups are developing mapping tools to identify areas that are difficult to count.
The low response score (LRS) is a metric developed by the US Census Bureau to classify geographic areas according to their propensity to self-respond to surveys and Censuses. Nancy Bates of the Census Bureau will showcase a new publicly-available tool that greatly simplifies the use of the LRS using a web-based mapping platform. The platform known as the Response Outreach Area Mapper, or ROAM, allows users to select a geography of interest to display tract-based maps colored-coded according to LRS. In addition to quickly identifying hard-to-survey areas, the ROAM also informs users why a particular area may be hard-to-count.
The Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center, working with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and other census supporters, developed the “Census 2020 Hard to Count Map” at www.CensusHardtoCountMaps2020.us to provide community groups, the media, Census Full Count Committees, and others with an online tool to highlight the hardest to count tracts in the country. This presentation by Steven Romalewski will introduce this intuitive, easy-to-use tool and potential upcoming additions.
Presenters:
Nancy Bates, Senior Researcher for Survey Methodology, Research and Methodology Directorate, U.S. Census Bureau
Steven Romalewski, Director, Mapping Service at the Graduate Center / CUNY