A New Way for Governmental Units to Request Review of 2020 Census Group Quarters Counts Potentially Affected by Pandemic

Governmental units in the United States and Puerto Rico will soon receive letters and emails from the U.S. Census Bureau informing them of a new way to submit information to request a review of their official 2020 Census group quarters population counts. Approximately 40,000 tribal, state and local governments will be notified and provided information on how to participate, including details on the materials required to submit a case.

The 2020 Post-Census Group Quarters Review (PCGQR) operation is unique to this decade because of the unprecedented challenge of counting group quarters populations in the 2020 Census during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 PCGQR operation was created in response to public feedback about the population count of specific group quarters during this unprecedented count.

Group quarters include places such as college/university student housing, nursing/skilled nursing facilities and correctional facilities. When the pandemic began in 2020, many colleges and universities, for example, closed dormitories and sent students home to learn virtually right before April 1. Changes in living arrangements made counting people where they lived on Census Day – and in the right place according to the Census Bureau’s residence criteria – difficult, especially since schools remained virtual throughout the data collection period.

The 2020 PCGQR operation was created in response to public feedback about the population count of specific group quarters during this unprecedented count.

Here, we answer questions about this first-ever operation that gives local governmental units an opportunity to ask for a count review of group quarters in their communities.

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