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An image from a handout video produced by the U.S. Census Bureau promoting participation in the 2020 census.

Gauging Arizona’s participation in the 2020 census

The state attempted to boost participation in traditionally undercounted communities.

The entrance to the U.S. Census Bureau's office in Tucson.

With census field operations wrapped, concerns over count persist

Officials say 99.9% of households nationwide were accounted for, but data experts say it's not that simple.

News roundup: Local candidates make their case, data shows racial disparities in TPD use of force

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Sept. 18.

News roundup: High daily case count due to new reporting methods, apartments near UA to close pools, gyms

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Sept. 17.

Arizona in final push for census

Census officials will stop counting in less than two weeks.

A Census Bureau plan to move up the deadline to end “enumeration,” the process of counting U.S. residents, from Oct. 31 to Sept. 30 was put on hold by a federal judge. Critics, including the Navajo and Gila River tribes, had sued to block the move, which they said would lead to an undercount, particularly for minority communities.

Judge halts plan to end Census early, as Arizona, tribal responses lag

The order said plaintiffs in the case had raised "serious questions" about the bureau's plan to stop counting.

Arizona has one of the lowest Census response rates in the country

With one month left, 74% of Arizonans have been counted.

Census Day is April 1, and the snapshot of where Americans live impacts billions of dollars of funding each year.

Census door-knocking starts today, facing tight deadline

The Census Bureau must count two in five Arizona households by Sept. 30.

Analysis shows how Trump's census change would impact Congress

The Pew Research Center used 2017 data to estimate how many undocumented people are in each state.

Protesters in 2019 at the Supreme Court, which rejected a Trump administration plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Now the president is directing the Census Bureau to take “all appropriate action” to determine the number of undocumented immigrants, even without the question.

Critics: Trump order to discount undocumented migrants in census will fail

Opponents immediately vowed to sue, saying the move was unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Governor's office: Arizona not sharing driver's license data with census

A spokesman said Arizona is not among the states that made a data-sharing deal with the Census Bureau.

Already fraught census count further challenged by pandemic

Though the pandemic has delayed parts of the census process, various groups are working to make sure everyone is counted.

Census going forward despite coronavirus delays

The 2020 census will count people where they lived April 1.

Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera (center) walks through a wash with members of the Tucson Police Department's Substance Use Resource Team on March 10, 2020. In an area common for drug use, Rivera saw how officers implement the department's Deflection Program that allows them to offer people treatment for drug-related crimes instead of arrest.

COVID-19 preparedness, TPD deflection program, census undercount

Plus, understanding the long-term economic impacts of the novel coronavirus.

Hard-to-count populations a concern ahead of 2020 census in Arizona

University of Arizona researcher Jason Jurjevich estimates up to 1.8 million Arizonans could go uncounted this year.

Most of the 57,000 jobs the Census Bureau hopes to fill in Arizona for the decennial census will be for enumerators, the people who go door to door to follow up with people who have not filled out their Census forms.

Help wanted, and wanted, and wanted: Census to hire 57,000 in Arizona

Most of the jobs in Arizona involve going door to door to interview people who have not filled out the census form.

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