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100

The reference day used for every resident in U.S. to be counted in the 2020 Census.

What is April 1, 2020?

100

Name the primary law that protects responses to the census?

What is Title 13?

100
Amount of federal funds distributed annually among states that is based on the official census count.

What is $675 billion?

100

The person that completes the questionnaire for all members of the household.

Who is Person 1?

100

True or False: Has there always been a citizenship question on the decennial census?

What is false?

200

On this day, most households could begin participating on the 2020 Census.

What is March 12th 2020?

200

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

200

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?

200

Name the different response methods available for the 2020 Census.

What is mail, phone, internet and in-person interviews?

200

Year in which, for the first time, the census became a short form only.

What is 2010?

300

Estimated date when census enumerators will be knocking on doors. 

What is Aug.11, 2020?

300

Name a second law and the number of years that census responses are confidential.

What is Title 44 and 72 years?

300

**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?

300

Estimated number of people living in Texas as of 2019.

What is 29 million?

300

Estimated number of children under 5 years old that were not counted in the 2010 census.

What is 1 million?

400

On this date, the responses to the 2020 Census closes.

What is Oct. 31, 2020?

400

True or false: Addresses are considered confidential information.

What is true?

400

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?


400

Number of census surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

What is 130 surveys?

400

Name the agency that conducted the first census.

Who is the U.S. Marshal Service?

500

Proposed date the apportionment count will be delivered to the President of the U.S. 

What is April 30, 2021?

500

Year in which the law that protects responses to the census was enacted.

What is 1954?

500

Name the Constitutional basis for conducting a decennial census.

What is reapportion of the U.S. House of Representatives?

500

The yearly sample survey that asks detailed information of U.S. housing units.

What is the American Community Survey?

500

Name the first year a census was conducted in the U.S.

What is 1790?

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