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Yeah this is such a cluster. Makes you think that maybe we should not be doing point in time counts every ten years. That can have a huge impact on entire gener
by CameronNemo 6y ago
Yeah this is such a cluster. Makes you think that maybe we should not be doing point in time counts every ten years. That can have a huge impact on entire generations of people. American Community Surveys run far more often, showing that we can potentially change our ways.
- xnx 6y agoIt's also astounding that this is the standard method when Apple/Google/Facebook/AT&T/Verizon could trivially give an instantaneous and probably more accurate count.
- danso 6y agoNone of those companies are likely to uniformly count all of the things that the Census purports to do, such as race/ethnicity and housing status.
- economusty 6y agoSo I change my Facebook profile and get counted as a resident? Is that what you are suggesting?
- danso 6y agoSure, but (ignoring the Constitutional decennial mandate, which also requires Census subjects to be defined 3 years before the actual counting [0]) what's a cost-effective alternative? The budget for the 2020 Census was $7+ billion [1]. And while the ACS annual surveys are considered accurate, what would be the right period for changing Congressional seat counts? It obviously can't be annual (since House terms are every 2 years). [0] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/census-constitution.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/abo... [1] https://www.census.gov/about/budget.html https://www.census.gov/about/budget.html