The US Census Bureau receives most of its attention when it unveils its once-a-decade, updated population count, although the work that goes into collecting the data for the 2030 headcount continues.
KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.
According to data released last July and collected during the 2020 Census over 331 million people resided in the US. That was a .6 percent increase in the figures the Bureau released in April of 2020.
On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau announced several important new updates during a webinar about the planning and preparations for the 2030 Census. Managers at the Census shared a new online tool dubbed the 2030 Census Research Project Explorer.
The online tool gives the public access to information about the 50-plus research projects being conducted, including the questions Census Bureau researchers are trying to answer.
Associate Director for Decennial Census Programs Deborah Stempowski spoke about the role AI could play in the 2030 census.
“That’s something that's ripe and very much emerging and a new technology that we believe will have benefit to the census, but we’re in our early stages of research.”
The Census Bureau will conduct two major field tests to prepare for 2030. The first will be held on Census Day on April 1, 2026, the second will be held two years later on April 1, 2028.
