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The Panel to Evaluate the Quality of the 2020 Census continues the Committee on National Statistics’ tradition of providing an independent, external review of the quality of the data collected in the 2020 Census and the component operations that produced those data. The need for this independent assessment is escalated by the nature of the 2020 Census: designed to implement several major changes to decades-old processes but confronting an unprecedented array of formidable logistical and operational challenges, including the forced delay in field operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel is expected to issue two reports.

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad hoc panel to review and evaluate the quality of the data that were collected in the 2020 Census. As part of its work, the panel will:

  1. Review information from the Census Bureau on the data collected as well as various process measures and indicators of data quality obtained as part of the 2020 Census operations;
  2. Review other available information, such as results from demographic analysis, process measures and preliminary results from the post-enumeration survey; and analyses of administrative records; and
  3. Consider the results from evaluations of similar indicators from the 2010 and 2000 Censuses.

The panel will produce an interim report with its initial findings and conclusions, and a final report that includes conclusions about the quality of the data collected in the 2020 Census and makes recommendations for further research by the Census Bureau to evaluate the quality of the 2020 data and to begin planning the 2030 Census. The panel’s reports will be reviewed according to institutional review procedures and released publicly on the National Academies Press web site.

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Department of Commerce

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Brian Harris-Kojetin

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Daniel Cork

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Anthony Mann

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