Updated Census Timeline

UPDATED CENSUS TIMELINE
NOW TO SEPTEMBER 15th An additional paper questionnaire to be mailed to

nonresponding households.
 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).
NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Census Takers Following Up With Non-Response

Households Nationwide
 All Regional offices are following up with households nationwide. Census takers have
completed training on social distancing and safety protocols, will follow local public
health guidelines, and will be required to wear a face mask when conducting follow-up
visits.
 To ensure a complete and accurate count, we must now go door to door to count all of
the households we have not heard back from. During this phase, you can still self-
respond online (at 2020census.gov), by phone (at 844-330-2020), or by mailing your
completed questionnaire.
 The Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operation is the final stage of conducting the once-a-
decade population count of everyone living in the United States. Households can
respond online or by phone in one of 13 languages and find assistance in many more.
Those that respond will not need to be visited to obtain their census response.
What Households Can Expect

 In most cases, census workers will make up to six attempts at each housing unit address
to count possible residents. This includes leaving notification of the attempted visit on
the door. The notification will include reminder information on how to respond online,
by paper or by phone. In addition, census workers may try to reach the household by
phone to conduct the interview.
 Census takers will go to great lengths to ensure that no one is missed in the census.
After exhausting their efforts to do an in-person interview with a resident of an
occupied housing unit, they will seek out proxy sources — a neighbor, a rental agent, a
building manager or some other knowledgeable person familiar with the housing unit —
to obtain as much basic information about the occupants as they can.
 Census takers are hired from local communities. All census takers speak English, and
many are bilingual. If a census taker does not speak the householder’s language, the
household may request a return visit from a census taker who does. Census takers will
also have materials on hand to help identify the household’s language.
How to Identify Census Takers

 Census takers can be easily identified by a valid government ID badge with their
photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark, and an expiration date on the
badge. To confirm a census taker’s identity, the public may contact their regional census
center to speak with a Census Bureau representative.
The Census Bureau Will Follow Up With Some Households by Phone

 To minimize the need to send census takers to households in person, the Census Bureau
is training census takers to follow up with households by phone. Using information
provided to the Census Bureau and third-party purchased data, the Census Bureau has a
strong contact list for both landlines and cellphones assigned to houses on the Census
Bureau’s address list. These phone calls will enable the Census Bureau to have
maximum flexibility for conducting field operations, and is one more method that
census takers can use to reach nonresponding households. Phone calls will be used on
an as-needed basis and when in-person contact attempts have not resulted in an
interview. If a voicemail is available, the census taker will leave a message asking the
household to call one of the Census Bureau’s call centers.
NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA)
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.
NOW-SEPTEMBER Emailing Households in Low-Responding Areas
 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.
NOW-SEPTEMBER 3rd In Person Group Enumeration.


Group quarters that remain a part of our in-person group quarters enumeration efforts.
JULY 1-SEPTEMBER 3rd
NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Coverage Improvement
 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.
NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Seasonal Homes and Cabins

 Have a lake cabin? Vacation home?
You DO need to complete the #2020Census for that address. If no one usually lives or
sleeps at that address, answer ZERO for number of people in that household. If you
have received a Census Form or an Invitation to Respond online go to
https://my2020census.gov/ , mail the form in or call 844-330-2020. Use your Census ID
or your physical address.
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.
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UPDATED CENSUS TIMELINE

NOW TO SEPTEMBER 15th An additional paper questionnaire to be mailed to

NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Census Takers Following Up With Non-Response

What Households Can Expect

How to Identify Census Takers

The Census Bureau Will Follow Up With Some Households by Phone

NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA)

NOW-SEPTEMBER Emailing Households in Low-Responding Areas

NOW-SEPTEMBER 3rd In Person Group Enumeration.

NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Coverage Improvement

NOW-SEPTEMBER 30th Seasonal Homes and Cabins

U.S. Census will now end Field Data Collection and

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