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Census data is wildly inaccurate. The percentage of people who fill out the census form is less than 20% in some neighborhoods. Whereas the city knows every tim
by Alex3917 4y ago
Census data is wildly inaccurate. The percentage of people who fill out the census form is less than 20% in some neighborhoods. Whereas the city knows every time someone flushes a toilet or flips a light switch.
- mlindner 4y agoYou do know that if you don't fill out the census form they come knocking on your door, and if you refuse to respond they ask your neighbors and go based on that.
- corndoge 4y agoIs that a statement or a question?
- michaelcampbell 4y agoYes?
- brailsafe 4y agoIn Canada, it's also technically illegal to not fill out the census.
- lupire 4y agoIn the US it is illegal to fill out the census. Making an error is purjery.
- CSMastermind 4y ago> Census data is wildly inaccurate What's your source for this claim? As far as I could find for people who aren’t counted by either census workers or themselves like you mentioned, the Census Bureau tries to get their information through other methods. This can be proxies, like other people who live in the neighborhood, other government data sets like social security records and postal service data, or through "imputation" which leverages statistical modeling based on the data they do know. All of the sources I can find suggest that the census is extremely accurate at the large city level, and only obfuscated at lower levels because of the data privacy protections they've put into place.