Currently Reading: CPI’s Census Accuracy Guides
The Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI) at Georgetown Law released a series of guides designed for civil rights organizations, advocates, and policymakers. The Census Accuracy series includes:
- Key Concepts Explained, covers essential concepts, such as net and gross accuracy and differential undercounts.
- Key Methods Explained, describes the Bureau’s main evaluation methods: Demographic Analysis and the Post-Enumeration Survey.
- Five Key Results & Trends Explained, summarizes accuracy trends from the 2020 Census and previous counts.
This series is intended to help stakeholders and organizations advocate for necessary research and reforms to ensure every community is accurately counted, promote robust funding for the census by emphasizing the need for accurate data to help ensure fair political representation and equitable resource distribution, and implement measures to mitigate the impact of census inaccuracies.