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Census 2020 will protect your privacy more than ever – but at the price of accuracy

  • Written by Nicholas N. Nagle, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
Census 2020 will protect your privacy more than ever – but at the price of accuracySeattle residents walk past a wall of posters encouraging Americans to fill out their census forms.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or the nation as a whole. Every 10 years, the Census Bureau asks about people’s ages, racial and...

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