SEPTEMBER 27, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Census push begins at city council
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Organizers of the U.S.
Census are hoping Keize-
rites do a bit better this time
around.
Kirstin Stein, a partnership
specialist with the U.S. Cen-
sus Bureau, used data as a call
to arms when it comes to re-
sponding to the U.S. Census
in 2020.
“Not responding means
millions and millions of dol-
lars Oregon doesn’t get,” Stein
said. “People don’t understand
the cost of not responding.”
Only three-quarters of city
residents participated in the
2010 Census count and that
means we left money on the
table when it came to federal
funding, to the tune of more
than $29 million in the past
decade.
Every 10 years, the U.S.
Government is required to
execute a national census, a
count of all the country’s res-
idents, that informs a wide
variety of local, state and na-
tional matters.
“It helps determine how
much money will be put into
Head Start or school break-
fast programs and informs
decisions about where to put
schools and hospitals,” Stein
said.
Perhaps most important-
ly, the numbers are used to
properly distribute the 435
members of the U.S. House
of Representatives.
The Census Bureau is
making efforts to ease the
process of responding. Start-
ing March 12, 2020, residents
will be able to respond to
the Census online, by phone
and on paper. In-person cen-
sus-takers will also visit the
addresses of those who don’t
respond via one of the self-re-
sponse methods. All mailed
items will be available in En-
glish and Spanish, but online
responses and other methods
will be offered in more than a
dozen languages. Every pub-
lic library will also be outfi t-
ted with a station to complete
the Census form.
Combined with a number
of limitations on disclosure of
Census data – ranging from
lifetime oaths to laws outright
prohibiting it – there are few-
er excuses available for not
participating.
Stein said several segments
of the population continue
to be hard to reach or elicit
responses from, they include:
renters, seniors, foreign-born
residents, homeless residents
and migrant workers. Ac-
counting for children, espe-
cially those living with grand-
parents, has also proven tough.
The type of information
gathered during Census ef-
forts include: name, address,
gender, race, phone numbers,
ages, date of birth, names of
others living at the same ad-
dresses and the relationships
between individuals.
While much
political hay was
made over the
possible inclusion
of a citizenship
question on the
2020 Census, it
will not be in-
cluded this time
around.
In addition to all the ef-
forts to reach new responders,
Stein said there are other ways
to get involved.
“We’re still recruiting enu-
merators to knock on doors
and forming Complete Count
Committees to help with get-
ting the word out,” she said.
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