Updated Census Timeline
Updated Census Timeline
To encourage more households to respond on their own to the 2020 Census, the Census
Bureau is contacting nonresponding households by mailing an additional paper
questionnaire to some households that have yet to respond. The Census Bureau is
sending a seventh mailing, including a paper questionnaire to the lowest-responding
census tracts (response rates of 65% and lower).
Representatives will visit open, public places in the lowest responding areas of the nation.
More than 3,000 Census Bureau staff are going into communities with low 2020 Census
response rates to encourage and assist people with responding to the 2020 Census.
Their goal is to help increase response rates and reduce visits by census takers to
households that have not yet responded.
These Census Response Representatives will visit places people naturally visit when
leaving home such as grocery stores and markets, food bank distribution events,
laundromats, restaurants and grab-and-go eateries, unemployment offices, back to
school drive events, places of worship and libraries.
The Census Bureau is selecting where to go based on local response rates and
conditions.
In the interest of public health, Census Bureau staff will decide on a weekly basis,
whether MQA activities will take place in each low responding county. The decision as to
whether a county is eligible to hold MQA activities will be made on a weekly basis in
accordance with Census Bureau protocol which is informed by local, state and federal
guidance.
The local Census Response Representatives will help people complete the census on a 2020
Census tablet or on their own device, while practicing social distancing.
The Census Bureau recently announced that households in low-responding areas would
be receiving emails to encourage response to the 2020 Census.
The emails will go to all households that the Census Bureau has contact information for
in census block groups with a response rate lower than 50%. This will include
households who may have already responded. In total, the Census Bureau expects to
email more than 20 million households in these low-responding areas. The email
messages will come from [email protected] and will give recipients
the option to opt out of receiving future messages.
The Census Bureau is using email addresses that households have provided in response
to another Census Bureau program, or received from states (such as from their WIC,
SNAP or TANF programs) or from a commercial list.
The goal is to make sure everyone in a household was counted, and to validate
information provided when they completed the census questionnaire. Census call
center agents began making calls on April 22. If the household does not answer a call,
agents will leave a voicemail with a 12-digit ID as a reference number. This effort is set
to continue through the end of the response phase on September 30th.
SEPTEMBER
The Census Bureau will count people living in transitory locations in
September. Between September 3 and September 28, census takers will count people
staying at campgrounds, RV parks, marinas and hotels if they do not usually live
elsewhere.
Homeless Count Between September 22 and 24, the Census Bureau now plans to send
specially trained census takers to count people at shelters, soup kitchens, regularly
scheduled mobile food vans, and locations previously identified by the Census Bureau
where people are known to sleep outdoors (like under bridges) and at all-night
businesses (such as transit stations and 24-hour laundromats). People experiencing
homelessness will be counted where they are staying when census takers visit between
September 22-24.
Post-Enumeration Survey interviews are set to take place September 23 to December
22. It regards Current residents of the housing unit. People living in the household who
may or may not have been there April 1 (Census Day). People who moved out of the
household between April 1 and the time of the interview.
SEPTEMBER 30th
Self-Response phase has now been extended until September 30th. To respond online
go to https://my2020census.gov/ or call 844-330-2020. Use your Census ID or your
physical address. If you have a Census form you may mail it in or you may respond
online or by phone also.