For decades, lawmakers and the U.S. Census Bureau debated how to balance accurate data and timeliness. In 1940, the census included separate questionnaires to count the population and collect housing ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...

For decades, policy makers, planners, researchers, the media, and the public have looked to the decennial census as the source of detailed information on the numbers and characteristics of the U.S.

THE ANSWER TO ALL THOSE QUESTIONS IS YES. YES, FOLKS. THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY IS REAL AND YOU ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO RESPOND TO IT. A VIEWER SENT ME THIS PICTURE OF THE SURVEY SHE JUST RECEIVED ...

In November 2022, we received an email from a reader about a letter received in the mail from the U.S. Postal Service. The reader asked if the letter about an "American Community Survey" that bore the ...

Feb. 23—Question : I just got a letter from the U.S. Census Bureau to respond online to a survey to help prepare for the next census. It says I'm required by law to complete this 10-minute survey. I ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Here are the answers to 12 common questions about the 2020 U.S. Census. What Does The Census Do? The U.S. Census Bureau, which is part of Department of Commerce, conducts a survey ...

Editor's note: This story originally identified the 2020 census questionnaires for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands as Census Bureau ...

The U.S. Census Bureau spent about $5.9 billion on IT contracts to help prepare the agency’s systems and technology for the 2020 census survey, according to a government watchdog report. Federal IT ...

The Census Bureau says it is conducting the 2024 Census Survey under the authority of Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141, 193 and 221, and that the selected recipients are required to respond. Q: ...