Census officials wary of ‘serious’ risks to data quality with compressed timeline




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Summary: The Census Bureau is working on a squeezed timeline to wrap up the 2020 count. Senior Census officials told the House Oversight and Reform Committee in closed-door briefings that the bureau has revised its schedule to meet legal December 31 deadline. That's the officials. Census documents warn of serious risks to data quality, if the bureau rushes quality assurance steps. For more on these developments, Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices