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Pandemic, privacy rules add to worries over 2020 census accuracy

  • Written by Qian Cai, Research Director of Demographics Research Group, University of Virginia
imageThe pandemic has stretched out the amount of time the census is being conducted, contributing to worries over accuracy. Kena Benakur/AFP via Getty Images

For the Census Bureau, the timing of national shutdowns due to the pandemic could not have been much worse.

Stay-at-home orders in March coincided with the period when millions of Americans...

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