Washington. According to government estimates, several minority groups were counted in the US Census in 2020. On Thursday, the Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) said they “projected not to count for African American, American Indian, Alaska Native, Some Other Race, Hispanic and Latino,” Xinhua news agency reported. Is.”
PES noted the 2020 Census did not have a significant net coverage error rate, but acknowledged that there was an estimate of 18.8 million omissions, which are people who should have been correctly counted in the census but were not counted.
The Census Bureau stated that the data collected by the census determines the number of seats in each state’s House of Representatives and can also be used to adjust or redraw electoral districts where there has been an increase or decrease in population. goes.
The results also inform decisions about how to allocate federal funding to communities across the country for hospitals, fire departments, schools, roads and other programs and services.
The 2020 Census showed that the US resident population, including the 50 states and the District of Columbia, stood at 33,14,49,281 as of April 1, 2020, an increase of 7.4 percent since the 2010 census.
Of the US resident population, 37.2 percent lived in the five most populous states in 2020 and more than a quarter lived in the three largest states, California, Texas and Florida.
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