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Economic demographer & govt stats guy, living my best life in Mpls St Paul. #JusticeMatters. Views found here are my own - and NOT representing my employer.
Aug 4, 2023 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 2 min read
#askademographer Over recent decades, Minnesota does RLY WELL attracting new pop. via migration.
(There 're people who want to argue this... 🫀... I'll take that up at end.)
Here is MN's experience: analysis of successive decennial censuses by
(1/5) https://t.co/sfksPr9ZnMnetmigration.wisc.edu
Image Most recent 3 decennial censuses show MN loses pop from 1 big demographic: early retirement age, 50's-74 YO. (And yes, that is MN's peak wealth group.)

(* MN also loses 18 YO headed to outofstate univs. Doesn't show as well in this chart, bc of chart's age categories.)
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Jun 10, 2022 β€’ 9 tweets β€’ 4 min read
.@uscensusbureau writes: " #2020Census data show the US population is much more #multiracial and more diverse than in the past"
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What REALLY happend = 2020 survey Q? change. New fill-in-blank Q?s on ancestry/origins. If your ancestries span >1 continent πŸ‘‰πŸ½ 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 thenπŸ‘‰πŸ½ @uscensusbureau's new processing regime possibly considers you "multiracial".
My critique of this... (2/n)
Jul 1, 2021 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 3 min read
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 πŸ‘‰πŸ½They do this to frustrate any1 who'd want to "sudoku solve" the age, race, & who's-related-to-who... in your neighborhood. 2/7
Jun 22, 2019 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 16 min read
@censusSDC @UNMBBER Our natl. network of #censusSDC & @uscensusbureau had a really productive annual mtg earlier this month. πŸ‘‹
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)