Problem of Low 2020 Census Participation Will Vary with Sociodemographic Factors and Distance from Metro Areas

Zheng Tian, Stephan J. Goetz and Charlie French

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2020, vol. 35, issue 01

Abstract: To identify hard-to-count places, the U.S. Census Bureau has computed low response scores using 25 sociodemographic variables. However, rurality of survey areas was not considered. We find that non-metro counties have lower response rates and that the influence of sociodemographic factors on census responses differs between metro and non-metro counties.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302488

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