Have questions about the census? Here's what you need to know — from how you fill it out, to what questions it will ask, to how coronavirus has impacted the count. CensusDay2020
The coronavirus epidemic has forced the Census Bureau to postpone its field operations, but the bureau is still collecting information from households responding on their own.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The coronavirus epidemic has forced the Census Bureau to postpone its field operations, but the bureau is still collecting information from households responding on their own.The federal government is trying to get every U.S. household to answer some personal questions for the 2020 census. It's part of a once-a-decade tradition of counting every person living in the U.S.
Each national head count comes with its own rash of confusion. The 2020 census is the first in the U.S. since the rise of social media and the first U.S. count that's primarily online. For months, the government has been preparing to combat disinformation campaigns that may try to disrupt the count, which is rolling out not only in the middle of a presidential race but also during the coronavirus pandemic.
NPR has been tracking all of the developments to help you figure out what you need to know. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about the census, answered.The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced the Census Bureau to postpone its field operations, but the bureau says it is still collecting information from tens of millions of households that have been responding on their own.
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