Jeffrey MervisTo counter what they see as unprecedented political interference in one of the world’s most respected statistical agencies, prominent statisticians are urging the U.S.
Census Bureau to be much more transparent about how it is now processing the billions of bits of information it has collected from a truncated 2020 census.A series of actions by President Donald Trump’s administration has jeopardized the agency’s ability to deliver an accurate count of the U.S.
population later this year, a task force of the American Statistical Association (ASA) concludes in a report released this week.
So, to maintain public trust in this year’s census, the task force recommends the agency invite an independent group of researchers to pore.