This study adds new evidence on whether net coverage of young children in the decennial Census is driven by the same factors as net coverage of adults by looking at correlation coefficients for 30 potential explanatory variables across states in the 2020 Census. Only 3 of 30 correlations are in agreement. Many other dissimilarities across correlations indicate the census accuracy for young children is driven by different forces than the accuracy for the total population. These results suggest It is important for the Census Bureau to develop operations, methods, and a communication outreach campaign for young children separate from those for total population in the 2030 Census.
