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2020 Census Planning Documents
2020 Census Planning Documents
The Census Bureau's archives contain documentation on 2020 Census planning efforts related to budgeting, establishing where to count, communication campaigns, privacy methods, and operational planning. The archives available below include detailed operational plans, decision memos, and information from public meetings about the status of our plans, among other documents.
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Consistency of Data Products and Formal Privacy Methods for the 2020 Census
JASON was asked to study the impact of these privacy mechanisms on consistency
for two data products produced from the 2020 census data.
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Administrative Data Used in the 2020 Census
This report documents the final use of administrate data during the 2020 Census. It updates and can replace the similar “intended use” memo made public in 2020.
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Administrative Record Modeling in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census is the first U.S. census to use administrative records (ARs) to enumerate some households.
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Assessment of 2020 Census Data Quality Processes
This JASON report assesses data quality processes, procedures, and plans and provides insights and recommendations on areas for improvement.
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2020 Census: Mobile Questionnaire Assistance Operation, Project Plan
This Project Plan describes the basic planning and operational control elements of the Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA) Operation.
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2020 Census Integrated Communications Plan
This document outlines the Census Bureau’s approach to planning and executing the 2020 Census Integrated Communications Campaign (ICC).
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Intended Administrative Data Use in the 2020 Census
The intended uses of administrative data and the expected sources of data have evolved throughout the research and planning for the 2020 Census.
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Formal Privacy Methods for the 2020 Census
This report discusses the proposal by the Census to apply formal privacy methods, in particular, the use of Differential Privacy (DP).
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2020 Census Life-cycle Cost Estimate Executive Summary
This executive summary of the 2020 Census LCCE is intended to provide the public with a high-level overview of the November 2017 version of 2020 Census LCCE.
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2020 Census Evaluations & Experiments
Project Evaluations and Experiments in support of the 2020 Census.
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2020 Census: Respondent Validation for Non-ID Processing
The final version of the Respondent Validation for Non-ID Processing
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2020 Census Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure Transition Plan
This plan documents the multi-year strategy for the Census IT evolution from the 2015 Solution Architecture to the 2020 Target Solution Architecture
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2020 Census Research and Testing Management Plan
This plan provides the overarching management and analysis framework for executing research and testing projects and integrating the results across projects.
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