Census Pulls Back from Puerto Rico Citing Concerns About Funding
The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it will not go ahead with proposed test plans in Puerto Rico, citing uncertainty about funding and effectiveness.
“The proposed funding levels in both the House and Senate from the spring of 2016 require us to prioritize other activities in 2017 rather than expend the resources necessary to conduct two planned 2020 Census field tests in FY 2017,” the Bureau’s decision memo explained. “Given the current uncertainty about FY 2017 funding, the Census Bureau will not continue expending resources to prepare for the FY 2017 field tests, only to receive insufficient resources to conduct them.”
The Census Bureau had originally planned to test new technologies being considered for the 2020 census in the municipios of Carolina, Loíza and Trujillo Alto in an area that included roughly 123,000 housing units.
According to Census materials, the Puerto Rico Census Test had three goals: (1) evaluate the process of updating Puerto Rico addresses to ensure a complete and accurate address list for the 2020 survey, (2) assess how internet testing options will work with traditional door to door census taking to produce accurate results, and (3) test Spanish-language data collection to ensure efficient and effective non-English data collection operations.
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