{"id":1081,"date":"2009-10-13T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2009-10-13T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:02:13","slug":"census-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/10\/13\/census-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"census preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"View<\/a>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> reports this week on a new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts regarding census preparations in a number of large US cities.<\/p>\n

The study compared Philadelphia’s census preparation efforts with those of five larger cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix – and five cities similar to Philadelphia and its history with the census: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Although the census is done by the federal government, ensuring the local count is complete and accurate has become a municipal self-promotion campaign.<\/p>\n

“Census preparation really matters,” said [Thomas] Ginsberg, [the project manager of Pew’s Philadelphia Research Initiative,]\u00a0and the census has become a hard sell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why is it a ‘hard sell?’<\/p>\n

Immigrants, especially those here illegally, are suspicious of the count despite the promise of anonymity. They fear the count could lead to discovery and deportation of them or relatives.<\/p>\n

Anti-government campaigns involving the Obama Administration’s proposal for universal health insurance coverage also appear to be affecting the census.<\/p>\n

And the economic recession has dramatically reduced local tax revenue, meaning there is much less to spend on municipal census promotion efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the sociological commentary…<\/p>\n

“Nobody is expecting a good census in 2010. I’m not optimistic,” said Joseph J. Salvo, New York City’s population division chief and a sociologist, quoted in the Pew study.<\/p>\n

Salvo, who advises and critiques the Census Bureau, noted that “since the last census we had 9\/11, privacy issues, trust of government issues. And there’s been no public declaration that we’re going to suspend immigration raids like in 2000.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports this week on a new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts regarding census preparations in a number of large US cities. The study compared Philadelphia’s census preparation efforts with those of five larger cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix – and five cities similar to Philadelphia and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[135,38,125],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-demography","tag-methods","tag-urban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}