2020 Census Integration Update

As we await the full release of the 2020 Census data, we plan to periodically keep you updated on our plans to integrate the data into our databases. While the Census Bureau is changing dates for releases, this is a tentative schedule. Earlier this year, we updated...

Privacy and the Census

Every representative democracy has a fundamental need to undertake a regular enumeration of its citizens to ensure that equal representation can be maintained as best as possible. But once you have gone to considerable trouble to count the people, it is quite...

Population Changes by Decade-1970 to 2020

Just this week, the Census Bureau released the long-awaited apportionment counts, and the population totals by state. We had some fun with the new data, looking at population changes since the 1970’s by block group, smoothed using a five-mile radius around each...
Census 2020 Update and Integration Plan

Census 2020 Update and Integration Plan

If you are like us, you have been refreshing the Census Bureau’s website weekly looking for the latest information about when the 2020 data will be released to the public. It was recently announced that the apportionment count, used officially for redistricting, will...

Census 2020 Updates

As data lovers, 2020 was slated to be an exciting year with the 2020 Census. Of course, like everything else this year, the Census was disrupted by COVID-19. While the count started on January 21st in remote Alaska, it took many more months to complete the count than...

Understanding the 2020 Census: Differential Privacy

The United States census has always required that its respondents cannot be identified from any tabulation published during the lifetime of those respondents. Over time, the level of geographic detail published by the Census Bureau has been greatly enhanced – with the...