More systemic racism.
The decennial enumeration of everyone living within the United States did not fully count the number of Blacks, Latinos or American Indians and Alaska Natives, while overcounting both White Americans and Asian Americans, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The overall count of people in the United States carried a tiny margin of error that adds up to fewer than a million people in a nation of 331 million, according to surveys the Bureau conducted after its decennial count.
But within that largely accurate count, the Bureau said it had discovered undercounts among minority populations that were more significant than the number of those populations who went uncounted in the last Census a decade ago.
Data from a post-enumeration survey, the regular check-in meant to measure an individual census’s accuracy, showed the Black population was undercounted by 3.3 percent, up from a 2 percent undercount in 2010. The Hispanic or Latino population was undercounted by 5 percent, well higher than the 1.5 percent undercount last time.
Among American Indians and Alaska Natives who were living on reservations, the Census undercounted populations by 5.6 percent, not a statistically different margin from the 4.9 percent undercount a decade ago.
The bureau overcounted the non-Hispanic white population by a 1.6 percent margin, nearly double the overcount rate that occurred a decade ago. And among Asian Americans, the bureau overcounted by 2.6 percent; ten years ago, the bureau’s calculations showed it nailed the number of Asian Americans in the country exactly.
The undercounts of minority populations came in the midst of an unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to tamper with the results of the Census. The White House attempted to add a question about citizenship to the Census, in spite of warnings from experts that doing so would lead to an undercount among Hispanic communities. The Commerce Department also tried to end some supplemental counting practices earlier than anticipated.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/597704-census-undercounted-minority-groups-bureau-says
The decennial enumeration of everyone living within the United States did not fully count the number of Blacks, Latinos or American Indians and Alaska Natives, while overcounting both White Americans and Asian Americans, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The overall count of people in the United States carried a tiny margin of error that adds up to fewer than a million people in a nation of 331 million, according to surveys the Bureau conducted after its decennial count.
But within that largely accurate count, the Bureau said it had discovered undercounts among minority populations that were more significant than the number of those populations who went uncounted in the last Census a decade ago.
Data from a post-enumeration survey, the regular check-in meant to measure an individual census’s accuracy, showed the Black population was undercounted by 3.3 percent, up from a 2 percent undercount in 2010. The Hispanic or Latino population was undercounted by 5 percent, well higher than the 1.5 percent undercount last time.
Among American Indians and Alaska Natives who were living on reservations, the Census undercounted populations by 5.6 percent, not a statistically different margin from the 4.9 percent undercount a decade ago.
The bureau overcounted the non-Hispanic white population by a 1.6 percent margin, nearly double the overcount rate that occurred a decade ago. And among Asian Americans, the bureau overcounted by 2.6 percent; ten years ago, the bureau’s calculations showed it nailed the number of Asian Americans in the country exactly.
The undercounts of minority populations came in the midst of an unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to tamper with the results of the Census. The White House attempted to add a question about citizenship to the Census, in spite of warnings from experts that doing so would lead to an undercount among Hispanic communities. The Commerce Department also tried to end some supplemental counting practices earlier than anticipated.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/597704-census-undercounted-minority-groups-bureau-says
