Child advocates in California, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island share their work on improving the count of young children in the 2020 census.
Census Bureau research shows that only about 20 percent of the young children who were not counted in the 2010 Census lived in a household that failed to return the questionnaire. Most of them lived in households that returned…
Young children had a higher net undercount than any other age group in the 2010 U.S. Census. The net Census undercount rate is a balance between people omitted and those included erroneously (mostly double-counted) and whole-person imputations. This chart…