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09/29/2026

Coalition on Human Needs submitted comments to the Independent Census Scientific Committee for its fall 2026 meeting, which focused on two critical issues: the new privacy rule and the proposed residence rule for the 2030 Census. Read the comments here:

CHN submitted the following comments to the Independent Census Scientific Committee for its fall 2026 meeting. You can find their proceedings and recommendations to the Census Bureau here. The meeting focused on two critical issues: the new privacy rule and the proposed residence rule for the 2030 C...

09/18/2026

NEW BLOG: Prepare Now to Comment on Proposed Residence Rule for 2030 Census: It Would Make Count of Children Significantly Worse

On September 10, the Commerce Department released a proposed residence rule for the 2030 Census that would violate the constitution and the statute implementing it, and exclude millions of children and others from the 2030 Census. Comments are due October 13. Several organizations including Count Al...

09/09/2026

Photo by Rajiv Perera on Unsplash The 2030 Census is the most foundational tool we have as Americans to protect civil rights, ensure accurate representation, and secure the equitable allocation of resources that children and families need to thrive. The Census is not a singular event, but a 10-year....

09/08/2026

We are excited to share with you research by Phil Rocco, Chair and Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. This is the first research we have seen documenting that state outreach activities in 2020 did improve census participation, particularly in communities where young children are at high risk of being missed.

We are excited to share with you the first research we have seen that documents that state outreach activities in 2020 did improve census participation, particularly in communities where young children are at high risk of being missed. This is excellent news. It is particularly important since the C...

08/18/2026

We have updated the Child Advocate's Roadmap to 2030 to address new opportunities and challenges from the past year. It is designed to help child advocates and child serving organizations improve the Census count of young children in 2030.

The Leadership Conference for Human And Civil Rights Education Fund and the Census Counts campaign (which brings together community-based organizations working to ensure communities the census has historically missed are counted) have created a Roadmap to 2030, a guiding document of milestones and a...

07/07/2026

The Count All Kids steering committee is drafting a resource with recommendations for state strategies to enhance the count of young children. Your reflection on efforts to mitigate barriers to complete the census form will help inform the guide. Take the survey here:

The Count All Kids Campaign is a public outreach effort comprised of advocates, service providers, and other stakeholders interested in improving the count of young children in the census and demographic surveys. The Count All Kids steering committee is drafting a resource with recommendations for s...

06/30/2026

NEW BLOG: Three organizations have just released important new resources on the Census. POGO and First Focus on Children have released analyses of how Census data drives funding for children, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights released a set of background materials on the Census such as timelines, how preparation is going, and basic facts.

We are delighted to share this new release from the Project on Government Oversight, Census Matters: How the Census Shapes Funding for Children, which found 70 census-guided programs that supported children. These programs accounted for $792.77 billion in funds disbursed to all 50 states and Washing...

04/01/2026

Members of the Count All Kids Campaign have been pressing the Census Bureau for years to test new strategies for counting young children because what the Bureau have been doing over the past 40 years is not working. We believe that if they keep doing what they have been doing, the problem will just get worse. Read more:

For years, the Count All Kids Campaign has been lifting up the need to test new strategies for counting young children. The Census Bureau’s own data shows that the count of young children has been getting steadily worse since 1980 even as the count of adults has improved. Dr. William O’Hare’s ...

03/31/2026

Today we published a brief that compares the undercount of young children in US counties with 20 factors that might contribute to such undercounts, to see which factors correlate with the undercount. Read it here: https://countallkids.org/resources/correlates-of-county-level-young-child-coverage-rates-in-the-2020-census/

While no single factor stands out as having a very high relationship with the young child undercount, there are many factors that have at least a moderate correlation with young child undercount rates. The only factor that seems to be statistically significant in the same way for both total population and young children is the percentage of adults with less than a high school degree, which suggests that improving efforts to reach households with low literacy could improve the count of both the total population and young children.

Because the Census operational plans take years to develop, the Census Bureau needs to assess substantial and innovative methods for accurately counting young children soon in order to embed successful approaches into the 2030 Census operations.

03/27/2026

Our latest blog shares a summary of recent happenings around the Census. The Census Bureau has dramatically changed their plan for the 2026 Census Test. We believe the new plan is profoundly flawed and will give meaningless and potentially misleading results.

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For years, the Count All Kids Campaign has been lifting up the need to test new strategies for counting young children. The Census Bureau’s own data shows that the count of young children has been getting steadily worse since 1980 even as the count of adults has improved. Dr. William O’Hare’s ...