“We are rapidly working down the backlog of paper questionnaires that have been received at our processing centers, and we will ensure all paper questionnaires are processed in time to deliver the apportionment counts,” the Census Bureau said in its statement.
While the response rate is at 61.5 percent nationally, it lags behind in many rural areas, dragging down overall state figures. Montana stands at 55.1 percent, Alaska at 47.1 percent and Puerto Rico at 20.3 percent. The Census Bureau planned to count all of Puerto Rico through questionnaire drop-off because of lingering devastation from the 2017 hurricanes.
The Navajo Nation reservation — which spans Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and a touch of Colorado — has a 1.6 percent response rate. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the tribe particularly hard, prompting the local census office there to be the agency’s last in the nation to reopen.
Previous census efforts have had an especially tough time counting people who live on reservations. In 2010, the agency missed nearly 5 percent of the Native American population on reservations nationwide, larger than the undercount of African Americans or Latino Americans.
Margo J. Anderson, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history and urban studies professor who has written several books about the census, said that despite the 61 percent national response rate, more needs to be done.
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