Investigating the 2010 Undercount of Young Children – A New Look at 2010 Census Omissions by Age

Census Bureau

This Census Bureau report analyzes how many young children were missed in the 2010 Census, and concludes that the high net undercount of 1 million young children is due to the very high number of missed young children at 2.2 million, rather than a low number of children where were double counted.