For the First Time, People Can Respond Online From Any Device, By Mail or by Phone

The U.S. Census Bureau is on track, on budget and on time in its planning for the 2020 Census and has formed partnerships with some of the nation’s most important corporations, nonprofits and multicultural groups to ensure that everyone is counted one year from today.

“The goal of the 2020 Census is to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place,” said Dr. Steven Dillingham, director of the Census Bureau. “A year before the census is conducted, we are on track. We are confident that our early planning is going to pay off.”

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Census Day, the reference date for responses to the 2020 Census, is April 1, 2020. For the first time, people will be able to respond anytime, anywhere — online from any device or by mail or phone.

“A year before the census is conducted, we are on track. We are confident that our early planning is going to pay off.”

— Steve Dillingham, director of the Census Bureau

Today, during a press briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Dillingham also discussed the Census Bureau’s new public relations campaign and tag line: “Shape your future. START HERE.” A national advertising campaign will start appearing in media across the country in January 2020.

“We are ahead of where we were at this point for the 2010 Census in terms of our planning, and we will be ready to take a complete and accurate census next year,” said Albert E. Fontenot Jr., associate director for Decennial Census Programs.

The 2020 Census is important because responses are used to help determine how more than $675 billion in federal funds annually are spent across the country. Those funds are used for services like emergency response and fire departments, and clinics and hospitals.

Results from the 2020 Census also determine congressional representation for each state, and are used by states to draw state legislative and school district lines.

The census of population and housing is taken every 10 years and is required by the U.S. Constitution. New technology, as well as census takers using smartphones and tablets, will make for the most modern and efficient census to date.

“The outcome from the 2020 Census is huge,” said Tim Olson, associate director for Field Operations. “It determines how we are represented in Congress and how federal resources are allocated to the state and local levels.”

Flanked by representatives of multicultural groups and key partners — such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the American Library Association and the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians — Census Bureau executives highlighted ways they are working to count everyone who lives in the United States.

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