Covering Census 2020

View the Project on GitHub mjwebster/NICAR_Census2020

This website contains resources for journalists covering the 2020 Census and will be the handout material for a NICAR20 conference session Countdown to the big count: Getting ready for Census 2020. Materials compiled by Paul Overberg (Wall Street Journal), MaryJo Webster (Star Tribune) and Gerson Vasquez (U.S. Census Bureau)

Slide decks:

Paul Overberg (WSJ) slides

Gerson Vasquez (Census Bureau) slides

Tipsheets:

Return rates vs response rates vs participation rates

Annotated links to Census resources

What data is available and when?

Story ideas

What is differential privacy?

Who gets counted where?” More information also available here.

Misc:

2020 Census Sample Form

Data files:

Downloadable data files