Census Bureau quietly scraps plan for improved data collection on race and ethnicity

The Census Bureau is walking back plans to unveil a new, more inclusive way to document race and ethnicity, ...
Los Angeles Times

The Census is changing its categories on race and ethnicity. Here’s what that means for Latinos

The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.
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Innovation Aided Completion of 2020 Census, But Coverage and Data Quality Issues Persist

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
Nature

Dasymetric population mapping based on US census data and 30-m gridded estimates of impervious surface

Assessment of socio-environmental problems and the search for solutions often require intersecting geospatial data on environmental factors and human population densities. In the United States, Census ...
Wired

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on ...