{"id":22649,"date":"2019-07-17T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/07\/17\/will-the-most-innovative-census-yet-create-more-risks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:45:40","slug":"will-the-most-innovative-census-yet-create-more-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/federal-oversight\/2019\/07\/17\/will-the-most-innovative-census-yet-create-more-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the most innovative census yet create more risks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Census Bureau has big plans to use new technologies and processes to make the rollout of the 2020 census faster, easier and safer for U.S. residents to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will be the first census ever where we expect most people to submit their data electronically and efficiently,\u201d said Steven Dillingham, director of the Census Bureau, at a July 16 hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the motivation for those innovations \u2014 which include re-engineering field operations, using administrative records, verifying addresses in-office and developing an internet self-response option \u2014 involves reducing the overall cost for the 2020 count, the estimate for which has reached $3 billion over the agency\u2019s original cost estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\t