Census Data Processing 101 By Michael Thieme, Assistant Director for Decennial Census Programs, Systems and Contracts, U.S. Census Bureau
Last week, U.S Census Bureau Acting Director Ron Jarmin released a blog about our progress on processing the data for the 2020 Census. This week, I'd like to go a little deeper into how census data processing works to ensure the census is accurate. The bottom line is that producing results from the 2020 Census is an enormously complex process that takes time. First, I want to explain that modern census processing is complex because of its numerous moving parts, with phases that must happen in a certain order. Our processing operation must place everyone correctly in a geographic location and count everyone in that location accurately. From enumeration in remote Alaska, to interviewing at doorsteps across the country, to counting federally affiliated Americans stationed around the world, and collecting data from people who self-respond to the census, each data collection effort produces responses in specific formats and on distinct schedules. | 
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