Census Timeline
The reference day used for every resident in U.S. to be counted in the 2020 Census.
What is April 1, 2020?
Name the primary law that protects responses to the census?
What is Title 13?
What is $675 billion?
The person that completes the questionnaire for all members of the household.
Who is Person 1?
True or False: Has there always been a citizenship question on the decennial census?
What is false?
On this day, most households could begin participating on the 2020 Census.
What is March 12th 2020?
Thinking about the primary law that provides the Bureau authority to conduct its work, name three basic protections afforded by this law.
What is:
-publishing statistical data only
-Not sharing responses with other government agencies
-census employees take a life-long oath to maintain information confidential
Name the two USDA programs that use census data to assist children in public schools.
What are the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program?
Name the different response methods available for the 2020 Census.
What is mail, phone, internet and in-person interviews?
Year in which, for the first time, the census became a short form only.
What is 2010?
Estimated date when census enumerators will be knocking on doors.
What is Aug.11, 2020?
Name a second law and the number of years that census responses are confidential.
What is Title 44 and 72 years?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Name the DOT program that uses census data to distribute the most in federal funding from this agency.
What is the Highway Planning and Construction program?
Estimated number of people living in Texas as of 2019.
What is 29 million?
Estimated number of children under 5 years old that were not counted in the 2010 census.
What is 1 million?
On this date, the responses to the 2020 Census closes.
What is Oct. 31, 2020?
True or false: Addresses are considered confidential information.
What is true?
Name the program that uses census data to distribute the highest amount in federal funding from the Department of Education.
What is the Federal Pell Grant Program?
Number of census surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
What is 130 surveys?
Name the agency that conducted the first census.
Who is the U.S. Marshal Service?
Proposed date the apportionment count will be delivered to the President of the U.S.
What is April 30, 2021?
Year in which the law that protects responses to the census was enacted.
What is 1954?
Name the Constitutional basis for conducting a decennial census.
What is reapportion of the U.S. House of Representatives?
The yearly sample survey that asks detailed information of U.S. housing units.
What is the American Community Survey?
Name the first year a census was conducted in the U.S.
What is 1790?