Census 2020 apportionments to be released by April 30; redistricting by Sept 30

[Frodo]

Why did Biden stop the CVAP numbers? Was there fear that SCOTUS would allow that data to be used for apportionment purposes? I think that you had informed me the CVAP numbers out there are stale and very inaccurate in some places. Without good numbers, how can you get the the Goldilocks point that makes you a good VRA warrior?

The Census Bureau already has to figure out the total population based on 67% self-response and the remaining 33% coming from often dubious efforts to count people, so how should they produce a citizen-only population if citizenship wasn’t even part of the questionnaire ?

Data on non-citizens is very limited and can only be produced by the annual ACS, which is a survey of a few hundred thousand households and no complete enumeration.

All of this is more reason for the US to adopt a CVSR.

What does CVSR stand for?  What is it?

[Frodo]

Why did Biden stop the CVAP numbers? Was there fear that SCOTUS would allow that data to be used for apportionment purposes? I think that you had informed me the CVAP numbers out there are stale and very inaccurate in some places. Without good numbers, how can you get the the Goldilocks point that makes you a good VRA warrior?

The Census Bureau already has to figure out the total population based on 67% self-response and the remaining 33% coming from often dubious efforts to count people, so how should they produce a citizen-only population if citizenship wasn’t even part of the questionnaire ?

Data on non-citizens is very limited and can only be produced by the annual ACS, which is a survey of a few hundred thousand households and no complete enumeration.

All of this is more reason for the US to adopt a CVSR.

What does CVSR stand for?  What is it?

A CVSR is a Central Vital Statistics Registry that most European countries have (in Austria, it’s the ZMR/PSR).

Once people get born, their data is entered immediately (incl. citizenship and place of main residence), when they move it is registered and when they die it is registered.

With such an up-to-date registry you can conduct a census every year at 1/10th the cost of a traditional census (or even less costly).

Gotcha, thanks.