Massachusetts 2020 Census
Secretary William Francis Galvin – Census Liaison
Secretary William Francis Galvin – Census Liaison
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LUCA Program Finishes
Census Bureau opens 6 Regional Census Offices
Census Bureau Partnership Specialists Begin Work
Complete Count Committee Road Tour
Complete Count Committee Informational Meetings with Municipalities
Census Bureau Opens Waves 1&2 Area Census Offices
One Year from Census Day 2020
Outreach to Seasonal Populations
Outreach to Student Populations
LUCA Feedback
New Construction Program
Census Bureau Hiring Continues
Census Bureau Group Quarters Operation Begins
Census Bureau Update Leave Begins
Internet Self-Response Begins
Transient Population Count
Census Day
Census Bureau Update Leave Begins
Non-Response Follow Up (NRFU) Begins
Service Based Enumeration
Census Bureau Counting Ends
Census Bureau Provides Apportionment Counts to the President
Census Bureau Provides Redistricting Data
The Secretary's Office and the UMassDonahue Institute (UMDI), along with other local governments, updated the Census Bureau's address list, in order to make sure all records are current to ensure everyone gets counted, through the Local Update of Census Address (LUCA) program.
Massachusetts falls under the New York Regional Office.
Partnership Specialists are vital channels for information and other consulting for all census-related materials. They act as the first line of communication for all parties interested in learning more about the 2020 Census.
The Secretary's Office maintains close contact with these Partnership Specialists, in order to best coordinate support for those organizing census awareness efforts.
The Secretary's Office, working with our partners at the Census Bureau, began touring around the Commonwealth, meeting with municipalities and organizations about how to best strategize their census outreach within their communities. The hope is to establish Complete Count Committees (CCCs) that have a diverse set of trusted voices to raise awareness about census and urge all to respond.
The Secretary's Office and the Census Bureau continue to meet with municipalities and groups to advise and provide support for census planning efforts, hoping to set up many Complete Count Committees early in the Census 2020 cycle.
These offices will not be traditional public facing offices. Instead, Census Bureau employees will visit these locations as a sort of home base, but most positions will be work-from-home.
The Secretary's Office intends to raise awareness and urge all communities to launch kickoff events to raise awareness about how vital census data is to Massachusetts.
The Secretary's Office will undertake outreach to seasonal populations in the Commonwealth, in order to inform them that their Census response should be recorded where they live most of the time (i.e. Massachusetts).
The Secretary's Office will undertake outreach to student populations, namely students who live off-campus, to educate them of census residence guidelines and to urge them to fill out their census where they live most of the time (i.e. Massachusetts).
Census Bureau delivers LUCA participants feedback regarding what updates were accepted and finalized in the Census Bureau's master address file.
The Census Bureau will invite participants a last chance at providing any and all new addresses that will be built and occupied by April 1, 2020.
The Census Bureau continues to hire for staff, which include Enumerators, who are charged with obtaining responses by going door to door. We urge all of those interested to apply, since we stress the importance of hiring locally.
Groups Quarters (GQs) are conducted differently than a traditional self-response. Groups Quarters ensure that all residents living in GQ style housing (such as dorms, barracks, nursing homes, etc.) are counted for the 2020 census. See Group Quarters pages for more information.
The Update Leave operation (UL) is designed to occur in areas where the majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the physical location of the housing unit, lack of reliable broadband access, or the mail delivery information for the housing unit cannot be verified. The purpose of the operation is to update the address and feature data for the area assigned, and to digitally link and leave a 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package at every housing unit (HU) identified to allow the household to self-respond. The 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package will optimize self-response by enabling people to respond via multiple modes, including internet, paper, or telephone.
Internet Self-Response encourages people to fill out the census form online or over the phone in twelve non-English languages.
The Census Bureau will partner with local community leaders in order to locate and enumerate local transient populations that do not have a permanent address.
The anchor date the Cenus Bureau uses for a hopeful completion date of all the census forms.
The Update Leave operation (UL) is designed to occur in areas where the majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the physical location of the housing unit, or the mail delivery information for the housing unit cannot be verified. The purpose of the operation is to update the address and feature data for the area assigned, and to digitally link and leave a 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package at every housing unit (HU) identified to allow the household to self-respond. The 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package will optimize self-response by enabling people to respond via multiple modes, including internet, paper, or telephone.
The Update Leave operation (UL) is designed to occur in areas where the majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the physical location of the housing unit, or the mail delivery information for the housing unit cannot be verified. The purpose of the operation is to update the address and feature data for the area assigned, and to digitally link and leave a 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package at every housing unit (HU) identified to allow the household to self-respond. The 2020 Census Internet Choice Questionnaire Package will optimize self-response by enabling people to respond via multiple modes, including internet, paper, or telephone.
Census Bureau works with service providers at soup kitchens, shelters, and regularly scheduled food vans to count the people they serve.
After collection activities are complete, Census Bureau experts run and review output from programs to unduplicate responses, determine final housing unit status, populate any missing housing unit data on household size and finalize the universe to be included in the apportionment count file.
The Secretary of Commerce transmits apportionment data to the President.
Census Bureau experts run and review programs to populate any missing demographic data for each household, run differential privacy programs to ensure confidentiality and run tabulation programs for each state delivery in a legacy format.
The crowd at Nevins Hall in Framingham, MA.
Secretary Galvin delivering remarks.
Executive Director of MIRA Eva A. Millona, Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin, Mayor of Framingham Yvonne M. Spicer, New York Regional Director for the Census Bureau Jeff T. Behler (left to right).
Mayor Spicer delivering remarks.
