This letter was submitted as public comment to The Honorable Robert Santos, Director, U.S. Census Bureau in January 2024 by Gary D. Bass, GDB Consulting & Executive Director Emeritus, Bauman Foundation, Chair, Census Equity Initiative, and LaShanda A. Jackson, Executive Director, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation.
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Dear Director Santos,
We write to express our concern about the Census Bureau’s approach to stakeholder engagement on important census and American Community Survey (ACS) matters. While our letter is prompted by the process for proposing revisions to the ACS disability questions, we view this communication gap as potentially symptomatic of a wider misunderstanding of stakeholder expectations with respect to consultation during the decision-making process on operational, content, and data product issues…
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Letter: Improving the Census Bureau Consultation Process, including on Proposed Changes to ACS Disability Questions
This letter was submitted as public comment to The Honorable Robert Santos, Director, U.S. Census Bureau in January 2024 by Gary D. Bass, GDB Consulting & Executive Director Emeritus, Bauman Foundation, Chair, Census Equity Initiative, and LaShanda A. Jackson, Executive Director, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation.
Excerpt
Dear Director Santos,
We write to express our concern about the Census Bureau’s approach to stakeholder engagement on important census and American Community Survey (ACS) matters. While our letter is prompted by the process for proposing revisions to the ACS disability questions, we view this communication gap as potentially symptomatic of a wider misunderstanding of stakeholder expectations with respect to consultation during the decision-making process on operational, content, and data product issues…
Click here or the button above to read the full letter.
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