"It's not they are reluctant to participate...they really don't understand what census does," census field manager Bob Lee tells @theNASEM Committee on Nat'l Statistics' 2020 census panel about challenge of counting one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the U.S., Queens, NY
@theNASEM 2. Many seniors who served as 2020 census workers were "resilient" & did "rise to the occasion" of meeting challenges of door knocking during a pandemic and while using smartphones & other new technology, says former area census office manager Diana Cannon of the Atlanta region.
@theNASEM 3. Explaining how the census guides federal $ to local communities helped convince many resistant households to participate, says Diana Cannon. "They just think it's someone from the government coming to impede upon their privacy and many of them did say, 'I did not know that.' "
@theNASEM 4. Many households are "not ready to see another census person come & knock at the door, so it's a little more challenging" to conduct the Post-Enumeration Survey (to produce 2020 census over/undercount rates) now, says Bob Leibowitz, regional technician for PES in NY region
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