The government will be flying blind with an inaccurate 2020 Census

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The government will be flying blind with an inaccurate 2020 Census

By Jessaca Leinaweaver, opinion contributor — 08/11/18 04:30 PM EDT

The government is flying blind without accurate information about the people they support. So why is the White House trying to throw a wrench in the 2020 Census?

In March, the Trump administration proposed adding a new census question about whether household members are U.S. citizens or not. On the face of it, this might provide more information about the U.S. population. But that’s only if people actually answer the question. Demographers and population scientists are very concerned that the presence of this question will decrease participation in the census. So we’ll end up knowing less than when we started.

Twenty years ago the anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes wrote about something she called “demography without numbers.” Her point was that many data sources that we rely on to understand the world are actually fairly inaccurate.

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http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/401407-the-government-will-be-flying-blind-with-an-inaccurate-2020-census

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   Silly Me, all these years I though the purpose of the census was to determine the ratio of LEGAL Representation in the US Congress, since these people are prohibited by the US Constitution from voting why all this pearl clutching? 

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One consequence of years of information overload, is often "Flying Blind."

On this particular issue, does anybody know what we did in previous census counts?


Did the process, ask the citizenship question?


And how does the census, count US citizens, legal residents, residing in say Alberta, Canada?