This letter was submitted as public comment to Ms. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, in November 2023 by Gary D. Bass, GDB Consulting & Executive Director Emeritus, Bauman Foundation, Chair, Census Equity Initiative; LaShanda A. Jackson, Executive Director, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation; Sol Marie Alfonso-Jones, Program Director, Long Island Community Foundation, Chair, Funders’ Committee Census Initiative (FCCI), David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, United Philanthropy Forum, and Saida Agostini-Bostic, President, Funders for LGBTQ Issues.
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Dear Ms. Dumas,
We write in response to the Notice titled “American Community Survey Methods Panel: 2024 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Test,” published in the Federal Register on September 19, 2023 requesting comments on the Census Bureau’s proposed plan to conduct the 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Test, a test that advances the research about how SOGI questions would perform on the ACS. We applaud the Census Bureau for continuing to improve responsible government data collection on LGBTQI+ communities by testing questions to gather SOGI data on the ACS…
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Letter: American Community Survey 2024 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Testing
This letter was submitted as public comment to Ms. Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, in November 2023 by Gary D. Bass, GDB Consulting & Executive Director Emeritus, Bauman Foundation, Chair, Census Equity Initiative; LaShanda A. Jackson, Executive Director, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation; Sol Marie Alfonso-Jones, Program Director, Long Island Community Foundation, Chair, Funders’ Committee Census Initiative (FCCI), David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, United Philanthropy Forum, and Saida Agostini-Bostic, President, Funders for LGBTQ Issues.
Excerpt
Dear Ms. Dumas,
We write in response to the Notice titled “American Community Survey Methods Panel: 2024 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Test,” published in the Federal Register on September 19, 2023 requesting comments on the Census Bureau’s proposed plan to conduct the 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Test, a test that advances the research about how SOGI questions would perform on the ACS. We applaud the Census Bureau for continuing to improve responsible government data collection on LGBTQI+ communities by testing questions to gather SOGI data on the ACS…
Click here or the button above to read the full letter.
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