President Trump released a memo on July 21, 2020, saying that undocumented communities will not count for dividing up Congressional representation between the states. The Presidential memo is unconstitutional and is being challenged by legal advocacy groups.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice explains the internet response option for the 2020 Census.

Please join us for this informative webinar to address concerns around census confidentiality, provide messaging recommendations to answer community questions, and discuss the implications of Trump’s Executive Order on citizenship data. In this webinar, participants will learn the Executive Order means, understand census confidentiality protections, receive message guidance for responding to community concerns, and actions that stakeholders can take to address census confidentiality concerns.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on how to identify a census taker.

This factsheet from Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a community education material focused on census confidentiality.

This webinar discusses census and data security, diving deeper into how the Census Bureau will be addressing security challenges on the first ever online census questionnaire. We also discuss how the Census Bureau keeps census data confidential and how census data are used to allocate federal funding.

A short FAQ on the privacy and confidentiality aspects of the decennial census.

The Census Bureau is modernizing its confidentiality protections for census responses. At the heart of this new approach is a mathematical definition of confidentiality called “differential privacy.” This fact sheet provides a brief and limited introduction to differential privacy, outlines the implications of the changes for data users, and encourages stakeholders to provide feedback to the Census Bureau. This fact sheet is published by the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and its partners, Data & Society and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

This report lays out concrete steps that the Census Bureau can take [...] so stakeholders have confidence that a broad use of administrative data will neither compromise census accuracy nor undermine the goal of eliminating the differential undercount.

Lack of trust in the confidentiality of census data presents a major barrier to census participation, despite the survey’s mandatory nature.