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“None of us could anticipate that as we fully launched the 2020 Census, a global health crisis would upend a schedule and plans which had been carefully constructed over a decade,” Dillingham’s statement
The agency uses those interviews to ensure that enumerators did not make mistakes or take shortcuts, but it cut them short because of the truncated schedule.
That resulted in a shortened schedule with in-person counting efforts ending Sept. 30, which became the subject of the lawsuit.
According to a Census Bureau document leaked to congressional Democrats, the shortened schedule for the 2020 headcount threatens the integrity of data.
[Census Bureau to halt counting efforts a month early] “I believe that this deviation in schedule is driven not by expert opinions of career Census Bureau employees but by external pressure
The director of New York City’s census effort, Julie Menin, called the schedule change “a disgusting power grab” by the administration. The city’s response rate currently stands at 54 percent.