Logic says the Hawaii count, with more personal responses, would be more trustworthy than the Louisiana one. Those statistical guesses, called imputations, were among the most closely watched and controversial aspects of the 2020 census.īut the report cautioned against rash judgments: Using more records to count households, for example, may have reduced the need to make even less accurate statistical guesses about them. In the previous census in 2010, 0.4 percent of households were counted by imputation. Many experts anticipated a sharp jump in that share - and a less accurate census - as the troubled 2020 count forced the bureau to guess about the composition of more homes. In fact, the results were more mixed, the study suggested. Overall, the share of population counts that were imputed dropped slightly. In part, that was because the pandemic forced many university students to return home, making it harder to count them in the dormitories or apartments where they normally would have been tallied.‘The worst’ it’s been: Covid hospitalizations reach all-time high in Washington state On the other hand, the bureau was forced to guess much more often about who lived in group quarters like college dormitories, long-term care facilities and prisons. Since the highly infectious omicron variant was discovered in Washington state last month, health officials have warned that a surge in cases could cause hospitals to become severely overwhelmed. Health care workers say that moment is now here. "The only 2020 data that appears to be good quality so far is the number of housing units.Inslee deploys National Guard to assist hospitals, testing “This is the worst situation hospitals in Washington state have been in compared to any prior point during the pandemic,” said Taya Briley, vice president and general counsel for the Washington State Hospital Association during a press conference Thursday morning. "Yes, it is one of many significant problems with the 2020 Census in my opinion," says Lombard. That seems like a pretty big failure, no? Meanwhile, the Hispanic population went from 5,417 in 2010 to 8,453 in 2020 in the County, and from 2,223 in 2010 to 3,207 in 2020 in the City.īasically, there's really no way to accurately tell how all the current 2020 race data compare to 2010. Indeed, the Asian population went from 2,633 in 2010 to 7,921 in 2020 in the County and from 3,330 in 2010 to 5,064 in 2020 in the City. The two changes in population that should be most accurate are changes in the Asian and Hispanic populations, says Lombard, because they were fairly large and the Bureau didn't make substantial changes to the two categories, at least for our local populations. "Add in the impact of the Census Bureau's privacy algorithm," says Lombard, "and I would not try comparing and be very cautious using any 2020 race data." For example, if a person checked the White box and Hispanic in 2010 he/she would be tabulated as White Hispanic, but in 2020 they would be asked to also write in their origin under White, so if they wrote in a Hispanic origin, such as Spanish or Mexican, then they would be tabulated as Some Other Race, Hispanic rather than White Hispanic. In addition, the Some Other Race category saw most of its growth from the Census changing how it processes write-in data rather than organic change. "But the Census Bureau made some significant changes in how they collected and published race data in 2020."įor instance, as Lombard points out, the number of Hispanics or Latinos reporting more than one race increased from 3 million to 20.3 million, a 560 percent change, but that's from the Census changing how it publishes data rather than an actual demographic change. "If there was a large change, such as the share identifying as Black alone or in combination increasing over 5 percent it might be meaningful," he says. Though the Weldon Cooper Center put both the 20 data in their population charts, Lombard said he would not recommend reading too much into the change in race numbers between the two censuses. "The changes in Albemarle and Charlottesville's racial composition are too slight to know if change actually occurred," says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with the Weldon Cooper Center, "whether people changed their responses, if the Census categorized them differently or if the Bureau's privacy algorithm is just distorting the numbers." Well, we've got new 2020 Census numbers for Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and our total populations have gone up since the 2010 Census, but for anyone hoping to understand how the racial composition of our area has changed (like The DTM had hoped) in the last decade by comparing 2020 race and ethnicity numbers and percentages with their 2010 numbers, The Weldon Cooper Center has some bad news.
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