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Jun 10 9 tweets 4 min read
.@uscensusbureau writes: " #2020Census data show the US population is much more #multiracial and more diverse than in the past"
🙄
What REALLY happend = 2020 survey Q? change. New fill-in-blank Q?s on ancestry/origins. If your ancestries span >1 continent 👉🏽 you are multiracial
I am stating simply bc twitter= not much exposition space...
#2020Census introduced new fill-in-blank Q?s on ancestry/origins. If your ancestries span >1 continent then👉🏽 @uscensusbureau's new processing regime possibly considers you "multiracial".
My critique of this... (2/n)
My critique of this: USCB's crosswalk equivalency* of: ancestry👉🏽race is an extreme conflation of sociology concepts. They overthrow the usual notions of (a) race= how you choose identify (#nope); and (b) race = how society or your community see you (also #nope) (3/n)
Instead, @uscensusbureau has gone all in on #dropofblood "ancestry trutherism". New fill-in-blank Q?s press respondents to list out ancestries. 2020 results so far: appears a few million ppl newly disclosed they are 1/16 or 1/32 or 1/n American Indian. OK, maybe?🤨 (4/n)
But metaissue is: Is ancestry equivalent to race, so do we mash these concepts together, overriding how people see themselves? The dropofblood standard does result in millions more counted as multiracial. (5/n)
I wrote to @uscensusbureau in Nov. asking:
1. Can the instrument effect be quantified? what share of people indicated add'l races compared to their own answers in past surveys?
2. What number of records (persons) were recoded or "imputed" to have a second or multiple race? (6/9)
Census Bureau has said in a blog👉🏽 census.gov/newsroom/blogs… there was a race recoding operation.
But they hv not said (🤔or point me there if i missed it): what number of pop. were recoded?
No answers yet? (7/9)
notes: I stated in tweet #3: Census now considers that every ancestry/ origin hierarch'ly belongs to a major race sector.
The crosswalk of ancestry👉race is Appendix F toward the end of this doc www2.census.gov/programs-surve…
(8/9)
1 more🗨️🐦...
Before you @ me, of course people who are biracial & multiracial should say so & can say so on Census surveys.
But we were ALREADY able to, that's been Census standard ~past 25 yrs.
The new wrinkle is USCB checking additional boxes after we've answered their Q?s.

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Jul 1, 2021
Disclosure Avoidance for the #2020Census...
TL;DR?
Yes. It's rly dense material. Let me summarize it for you:
Good news! but also bad news.
Here's my thread...
1/n
First, some recap: #DifferentialPrivacy is process that Census chose to distort #2020Census data tables. DP adds "random noise" to (actual) pop counts 👉🏽They do this to frustrate any1 who'd want to "sudoku solve" the age, race, & who's-related-to-who... in your neighborhood. 2/7
The GOOD news: Setting the data accuracy "budget" higher (announced in June) allows Census more accuracy (better than prev'ly discussed) for most counties & cities (all but the smallest). And almost-OK accuracy for other geogs of concern (AIAN areas, lege districts). 3/7
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@censusSDC @UNMBBER Our natl. network of #censusSDC & @uscensusbureau had a really productive annual mtg earlier this month. 👋
Great opp'ty to hear how #stategov & univ #datapros are extending Census data -- new uses & broadening the audience.
@censusSDC @UNMBBER @uscensusbureau .@SuzanReagan provides a good roundup of news from our partners @uscensusbureau

Some of the news was (surprise) actu'ly newsworthy. (Attn #2020censusbeat #poptwitter)
@censusSDC @UNMBBER @uscensusbureau @SuzanReagan Highlights from my pt of view 👇
1. After some prodding by those of us in the States, USCB published a database of 2,700 #CompleteCount Cmtes prep'ing for #2020Census. Here public.tableau.com/profile/us.cen…
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