Good afternoon on behalf of the US Census Bureau welcome to our briefing today we will release the state population counts from 2020 census and the resulting changes in congressional enforcement I'm Michael Cook, Division chief of the Public Information Office, and I will serve as moderator for today's program Some things have changed since we released the results last decade. most notably this decade, many households learned about the 2020 census online and completed the questionnaire online. Today we come together online to share the results One thing has not changed the Census Bureau's commitment to protect the privacy of those who responded to the Census and our commitment to provide statistics that help shape planning for our future. I am pleased to welcome US Commerce Secretary Dr Gina Raimondo, who will begin our program, followed by acting director for the US Census Bureau Doctor Raj Jarman, who will provide a brief look back at the 2020. And then the population results we will then take questions from Credential Media welcome Madam Secretary. Hello everyone. I'm thrilled to join you on such a momentous day The deer Census plays a vital role in our democracy and I'm so proud of the work. The Census Bureau has done over the past decades to complete the twenty-fourth Deen Census. It's a wonderful witness of all the work that now coming to fruition. First, I want to thank all of the dedicated staff at the Census Bureau without you today would not have been possible. 2020 brought unprecedented challenges a global pandemic destructive wildfires the most active. Hurricane season record and civil unrest across the country with all of that happening, the Census Bureau had to quickly adapt its operations to confront these challenges. head on. but the dedicated civil servants to the Census Bureau with the assistance of state and local governments and community groups managed to overcome these hurdles and conduct a complete and accurate Census count so today we express our gratitude. To you and let you know how proud we are of your work. I also want to thank the American people for their overwhelming participation in the Census while the Census Bureau has worked tremendously hard over the last year, a complete and accurate count would not have been possible without all those who took the few minutes to respond to the Census to all those that responded. Thank you for participating in democracy. as a former governor. I know firsthand how critical census data is for our communities. We know census data is used to determine how many representatives each state has in Congress, but it's used for much more than that state and local officials, the federal government nonprofits all US census data to make decisions that have a direct impact on our lives. We use the data to decide how many teachers we need in our schools. how much funding we need for public housing programs where to locate. Or a health clinic where to build new roads, we use the data to make sure the economy is working for everyone. The data is vital and we are so lucky to have some of the best and brightest statisticians at the Census Bureau who have worked tirelessly this past decade I trust these experts and I'm confident of this work. earlier today I had the privilege of transmitting the 2020 census population and a Porsche counts for each state to the president. For the constitution these counts determine the apportionment of seats in the US House of Representatives. This is a unique ritual that has occurred only 23 other times in American history. I assured the president that the Census was complete and accurate. President Biden will then deliver the population counts and apportionment result to Congress as required by law, but our work isn't over yet and we look forward. Delivering the redistricting data no later than September 30th. Thank you for having me today and congratulations on completing yet another Census. Thank you Madam Secretary This is a historic moment that happens once every 10 years and it is my honor to represent all of the hardworking staff at the US Census Bureau who spent countless hours to ensure everyone was counted, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. I also want to thank everyone who responded to the Census during these extraordinary times when the first C. Was being conducted in 1790 Congress expected about 2 million people to be living in the country when the results came back in 1793, the population exceeded 3.9000000. 3.9000000 overnight, the number of congressional representatives grew by forty. this number was so much larger than anticipated that they had to add on to Independence Hall to house all of the new lawmakers The first Census was a critical step to help build the foundation of our democracy and as we've. Over the years, it continues to be a cornerstone of our growing nation through wars times of great social and technological change and during a global pandemic, Our has taken the census every 10 years as directed by our constitution. The census is a massive operation that takes years to plan and it takes a community to see it come to fruition in addition to our dedicated staff, we had the support of hundreds of thousands of national and local partners, and of course. We had the help of our respondents who spend a a few minutes completing the 2020 Census Forum. The count began in January of 2020 in the small Alaskan village of Tusk Bay. It was there We counted the first person in the 2020 census on March 12, 2020 invitations to respond to the Census began to arrive in mailboxes across the country less than a week later states across across the nation began to impose stay-at-home orders. We knew we needed to adapt, we adopted our operations to protect the health and safety of our staff and the public and we adopted our schedule to ensure we could deliver high-quality statistics and later we adapted due to natural disasters, including hurricanes and wildfires. Through all of this, we remain flexible and practical and persistent so that we could fully conduct the 2020 census count we were especially pleased to see how two thirds of the nation completed the census on their own trying to reach as many people as possible We extended our communications campaign and quickly developed new ads reflecting during the pandemic we advertised on pizza boxes instead of during basketball games. Our partners joined us in reaching people at food banks and school cafeterias instead of promoting the Census at county fairs we quickly. Expanded from thirteen non-english languages to 46 languages to assist in reaching additional historically uncounted populations We mailed additional reminders to respond, We emailed households in low responding areas and worked with colleges and universities directly to ensure their students were counted in the right place. We work hard to get more people to respond, especially in those historically uncounted areas Census takers have a hard job to begin with and trying to count people. A global pandemic made it even more challenging, but in order to count the remaining households that did not respond on their own our census takers went out to those addresses equipped with masks and iphones and collected responses directly from household members or from knowledgeable neighbors in some cases when we couldn't get a response in any of these ways we were able to use information households already provided the government such as through past Census responses, tax returns or other government records as we. To the results I want to know that we appreciate the public's patients as we took the appropriate amount of time to ensure the accuracy and quality of the count. So with that, let's get to the results you've all been waiting for. The 2020 census took a snapshot of all people living in the United States on April 1st 2020 and the results are in, according to the 2020 census, the number of people living in the United States was 331. 331000400. 331000449. 331449200. 331449281. This represents an increase of 7.4% over the official population count from the 2010 census This population growth rate is lower than the previous growth rate of 9.7% between the 2000 2010 census, in fact, the growth rate from the from 2010 to 2020 is the second slowest in US history the country's 7.4% increase in population this decade was only slightly more than the 7.3 increase between 1930 and 1940. for. Regions The South grew the fastest over the last decade with the 10.2% increase in population followed by the west with 9.2%, the northeast with 4.1% and the Midwest with 3.1% the Northeast grew faster this decade than it grew between 2000 2010 while the other three regions grew slower this decade than the last. when looking across the states we see large variation in population sizes the state. Largest 2020 census resident population was California with 39000530. 39538000. 39538200. 39538223 the state was the smallest population was Wyoming with 576 thousand. 576800. 576851. However, the ten most populous states each had a resident population between ten and 40 million. While the ten least popular states each have a resident population between a half a 1000001 point. 1000001.4000000. The population of most states grew between 2010 and 2020, Utah was the fastest growing state with an 18.4% increase in population growing to 3.3000000 in 2020 on the other hand, three states lost population with West Virginia having the largest rate of decrease at 3.2% the population of District Columbia Group by 14.6. 14.6% Puerto Rico's population decreased by 11.8% to 3.3000000. Now, let's get to the abortion that results from the 2020 census the constitutional purpose of the census is congressional portion, which is the process of distributing the memberships or seats in the US House of Representatives amongst the states every 10 years in a way that is proportional to each state's population since 1941, the law has specified that the method of equal proportions will be used to assign house seats to the states And while the law does not require the census Bureau to calculate the number of seats each state will get we do it as a. To the president. we apply the required method to the apportionment population of the fifty states, not including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico because they have no voting seats in the Congress. The 2020 census a portion population includes the number of people living in the fifty states plus the overseas population, which is a count of federal employees living overseas and their dependents living with them who are allocated to a home state. Since 1940 a regional trend with a Porsche has been an increase in the number of congressional seats for the south and west and a loss of congressional seats for the North and Northeast and Midwest more specifically since 1940, there's been a combined net shift of eighty-four seats to the south and West regions. overall, the effect of the official 2020 Census population counts on congressional portion is a shift of seven seats among thirteen states, which is the smallest. Seats shifting among the states in any decades since the current method of calculating a portion that was adopted in 1941 six. states will gain seats in the House of Representatives, Texas will gain two seats and Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon well each gain one seat. Seven states will each lose one seat in the House, California, Illinois, Michigan New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The number of seats for the remaining 37 states will not change. The states that have the most representatives in Congress are California with 52 seats, Texas with Thirty-eight seats, Florida with 28 seats and New York with twenty-six seats. These four states are the most populous in the US with each having more than 20 million people and together those states will hold about a third of the total seats in the House of Representatives. also each of the six least populous states will have less than 1 million people and we'll have only one seat. After the first abortion occurred based on the Census, each member of the house represented roughly 34 thousand people now the average population size of each house district based on the 2020 census will be 761 thousand. 761169 people, which is an increase of 50402 people per representative when compared to the average of 710007. 710767 people per representative based on the 2010 census. Those were the first results of the 2020 census. We have taken the time we needed to produce the high quality statistics that we and the public expect well, no Census is perfect. We are confident that today's 2020 census results meet our high data quality standards. We would not be releasing them to you otherwise the Census Bureau is committed to sharing what we know when we know it to help the nation understand the the quality of the 2020 census results. despite all the challenges of the pandemic, the completeness and Of these first 2020 census results are are with recent census, we had numerous quality checks built into collecting the data and we have conducted one of the most comprehensive reviews in recent census history during data processing later today, we will release the next set of operational quality metrics and additional quality indicators this afternoon's release will be be unprecedented and how soon after the census we are able to provide operational metrics down to the state level. They are just one. Many ways we evaluate and assess the quality of the 2020 census while our assessments won't change the results of the 2020 census, they will inform and influence our planning for the next Census. We are also looking forward to sharing more 2020 census population results with you later this year, including redistricting data statistics on age sex race and ethnicity and details about the center of population. the results for the US Island areas will also be provided in a separate release at a later date. States as well as the public will receive the data they need to begin redistricting by August 16th, The Census Bureau will also deliver the final redistricting data toolkit to all states and the public by September 30th COVID-19 related delays and prioritizing the delivery of these apportionment results today delayed our original plan. different from previous Census, The Census Bureau will deliver the data for all states at once instead of on a flow flow basis. Finally. Take a moment to thank our tireless hardworking staff for everything they have done to ensure the delivery of today's data and future data from the 2020 census and I want to thank the millions of people who completed the 2020 census on their own or provided information to our census takers. Thank you Michael back to you. Thank you Ron we'll now begin taking questions from Credential Media about the first 2020 census population results. members of the media who registered received a phone number via email from our Eventbrite account when asking a question. Please include your name and media affiliation. Operator Can you please provide the instructions for calling in? If you would like to ask a question press star one unmute your line and speak your name and media affiliation when prompted. Drop Again to ask a question press star one. Thank you to all the speakers all of the results discussed today are available on our website@Census.gov You will find many materials related to. While we while we await callers, let let me introduce our census bureau matter experts to us we have with us today. Ron Jarman our acting director of the Census Bureau, Alfonso associate director for the Deen Census Victoria Elk, the associate director for demographic programs, Karen Battle chief of the Population division and Kristen Cola. She's our lead technical expert for the 2020 Census apportionment in the population division Operator. Are we ready for our first question? Question comes from Mike Schneider with Associated Press Your line is open. Hi, my question is is this is Mike Schneider with The Associated Press. My question was for Doctor Jarman You know the estimate showed Texas was supposed to gain three seats, but only gained two seats, but it was expected to gain two seats, according to the estimates, but only gained one seat. What is your theory on why these states did not get the extra seats both have siz. Hispanic populations is there any concern that Hispanics in the states were overlooked. Thanks for that question? Mike I'm going to have Ron speak to that, but also knowing that our demographic experts might have some some sound and some some background some information to give you as well. Ron Yeah. Thanks for the question Mike So you know we did do a very thorough job, especially in those areas, making sure that we counted everybody. you know. I think we we saw from our population estimates that the population growth has slowed significantly, and I think that that you know some folks is projections might have been based on slightly higher population growth projections, but you know, I'm not the demographer on on the call here. So maybe I'll turn it over to Tori or Karen to give a little bit more insight into that. Hi there good afternoon. so what I'll just mention is that for the state of Texas and for the state of Florida, the 2020 census counts were actually below our population estimates from vintage 2020 now for Texas and Florida, the difference between the 2020 census count and the estimates was within about 1% so they were still close but the 2020 counts were slightly lower than our population estimates. For that chair. operator do we have our next home? Our next question comes from Zach Montel with Politico. Your line is open. Hey. Alright. Thanks. Thanks for doing this, thank you for taking questions. I want to follow a little bit on Mike's question we saw you know Rhode Island didn't lose a seat like we was widely expected, Florida and Texas kind of game Russ again. I kind of want to reiterate. Do we have any explanation as to why the population the earlier population estimates were you need to over or under shooting and what what is the bureau's level of confidence in this count? given everything that's happened over the last year given the pandemic given all the changes to the schedule, what's the level of confidence in these results? Thanks for that line of questioning, I'll I'll pass that back to our demographic experts to talk about the quality of our data, but then specifically your questions that I asked about the apportionment results. Thanks for that question, we are very confident in the data that we released today we measure the quality of the Census in many different ways and one of the ways that we measure the quality of the census is to compare to our population estimates of course, our population estimates are based on the last census and built forward, adding births, subtracting deaths, adding in migration so most states are within 1% of our population estimates, which makes us feel very good about those census counts. Thanks for that line of questioning. Do we have our next caller? Our next question comes from Birch with Star Tribune. Your line is open. Hi, thanks for taking my question, I was wondering if someone could talk a little bit more about how the seats that were narrowly expected to lose like Minnesota and preliminary numbers. We're going to lose what's going to lose one of its see how it held on could high participation have contributed to something like that. Thanks for that line of questioning and again, I'll lean in and and toss it back over to our demographic director of experts to talk a little bit about the count itself and as you stated those states that had lost a seat or or on the verge of gaining a seat. I'll start thank you for that question. I want to repeat what my colleagues have said. We're very confident in the quality of the data and we've worked hard to ensure that the data that we're using to calculate a portion is correct as far as how certain scenarios may have impacted the results in the portrait, we don't tend to speculate on that. We just use the counts that come from the decal Census after they've been. So, We will continue to look into the quality of the data as we move forward. Thank you, Kristen and thank you Colin for that question. Operator Do we have our next caller? Janelle all day with the Saint Louis Post dispatch your line is open. Hi everyone. thanks so much for having me I really just need a couple of basic data points from you on the data reporter here at the post. Can you please just tell me what the population of Missouri is and what the population of Illinois is. What I'm going to suggest for you if you don't mind we have population or public affairs specialists that are on our our comms line and Pio if you can contact them at PIO at Census.gov or 301763 3030, we'll get you those numbers right away. so you can file your story. Okay. Alright. Can you still hear me here? We can't is that information not searchable on your data portal right now well ma'am. We're actually conducting a live. conference or news conference in AQ and a and some of our SM ES don't have the database at their fingertips so just to expedite getting you that response. I wanted you to to reach out to our public information office if that's quite alright by you. Okay, Yes, I will do that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much and thank you for your continued interest in the 2020 census Operator Can we have our next caller? Dan Clark with TBS public Broadcasting Your line is open. Alright. Can you guys hear me We can't loud and clear. Alright great so just looking at New York specifically and giving your answer to the last reporter. I'm not sure if you know but just looking at New York specifically is there any indication of where New York's population is going in terms of which states they're moving toward that we're losing people to and. Can any of you tell me how close New York was to losing a second congressional seat? Yes, we have information on that and I'll pass it over to our demographic directors specialist or experts. to thank you. Sharon Actually, I was just going to start and say that we do know from our population estimates that the state of New York has experienced negative domestic migration, meaning there were more people moving out of the state of New York over the last decade and moving into the state. I don't have right here information on specific which states people are moving to. but that's something that could be discussed with subject matter experts at the Census Bureau and Just to add that actually New York crew between the 2010 census and the 2020 census by about 4.2. 4.2%. I was just going to follow up on the last part of the question. she asked how close New York was and so what we have is that if New York had had eighty-nine more people they would have received one more seat instead of the last state that received their last seat at their 435 seats. so the last seat went to Minnesota and New York was next in line and if you do. Algebra equation that determines how many they would have needed. It's eighty-nine people, but that's if you hold the population of all other states constantly. Can you still hear me sorry? So if we have counted eighty-nine more people in New York state and assuming everything else was constant, we would not have lost a congressional seat. Correct Thank you for that sir Operator Do we have our next caller? Jen Jacobs with GV Wire.com Your line is open. Can you hear us? I don't I don't think that's it. Right Hello hello. hello. Hello. we can hear you loud and clear now we can hear you. Oh excellent. sorry my button got pushed there. Sorry, there's Jim Jacobs with TV wire.com. My question is very similar to the gentleman's in New York and I want to be more California centric and specific that that's where I'm at. Can you talk to me about the shifting demographics in the state of California. inflow versus outflow and how close are we to losing a potential second seat or in the case of New York? How close are we to not? One seed, if that makes sense, thank you. thanks for that a lot of questions and because it's about the data results, I'll turn that over to our demo experts. Hi there. This is Karen battle so with the state of California, what I can tell you is that from our population estimates program, we know that over the last decade. that California. has actually experienced natural increase where they were able to. Population because there were more burst and deaths and they also had positive net international migration. but California did have negative net domestic migration where again there were more people moving out of California than moving into California. and so that contributed to the the population count in the census. Thanks for that Karen operator Do we have our next caller? I'm sorry. Oh go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead he was waiting for the rest of the answer, which is he asked about how close California was and what I can tell you is that as you as I said before there's 435 seats if you continue down the rankings, California was at number 441. so that's about six steps down from gaining the next day. Thank you for that Kristen Operator Do we have our next caller? Jamie Weiss with 4029 News, Your line is open. Hi good afternoon. Can you hear me We can loud and clear Hi there. This is Jamie Weiss with 4029 News. I'm not sure if you can answer the specifics. I'm calling about Arkansas and Oklahoma states in the South, where they're next to big states like Texas that have seen an increase in population. I'm curious if you've seen any data about growth in those states, but why maybe they haven't received a congressional seats and why they haven't lost any congressional seats either. Thanks for that line of questioning and again, I'll pass this over to our demographic experts. In terms of whether why a state has not gained or lost a seat. it all depends on the population distribution for any given the signal Census. so if their population in relation proportional relation to the other states hasn't changed. then they won't gain or lose a seat. Thanks for that Kristen. operator Do you have our next caller? Hi kiddos with Politico, Your line is open. Hi, it's Shea caps with Illinois Playbook and Politico. Can you talk a little bit about the migration out Migration of Illinois and how close was it from losing a second seat and is there a chance that block by block information will be released a little bit earlier than September. Thanks for that line of questioning and we'll take this right back to our demographic experts for a little explanation all be it be mindful of the fact that the the set of data that we've released today is only down to the state level as far as the geography is considered, but there will be more to come and and more details to follow as we continue to to disseminate the the results the 2020 Census demo. so I'll start so Illinois was actually one of the three states that actually lost population over the last decade. and. Know from our population estimates program that. the state of Illinois actually had negative net domestic migration again, there were more people moving out of that state than moving into that state and I think I'll turn it over to Kristen to talk more about the next part of your question. As far as how close they were to losing another seat, I don't have that in front of me, 'cuz that would require me to look up in the rankings you know above to see how far how close they were to see 435 But when I look at the states that were direct ten states that were directly below seat 435 Illinois is not among them so Illinois was not close to getting or to not losing another see if that makes sense. Thanks for that Kristen reporter operator Do we have our next caller? En suite with Chicago Sun Times, your line is open. Thank you. They're not saying that there's a lot of interest but I want to follow up with my colleagues from Missouri and and from Illinois Playbook. Could you make it perhaps a little clear is the loss not so much so we've lost population in Illinois, but was it even more of a matter that other states just had such big gains and even if we had health studies, we might have lost a seat. Is it really a loss or was it because other states just gained more that we lost the seat. Coming right back to you? We can't really. comment. I mean we can't really speculate on that because it's it's all about the distribution Overall. what you're stating could possibly be true but. without digging into it a lot more deeply, we wouldn't know exactly the reason why one state loses or gains because it's the calculation is done as a whole on all the states together and how they're proportionally related but theoretically. If certain states gained a lot more than other states of proportionally than they would be more likely to gain seats. Thank you for that crystal. Operator We have our next caller. Roxanne Scott with WAVE News The line is open. Okay. Thank you. Can you hear me? I hope so yeah out of there. Yes. Okay. Thank you. I wanted to know in similar to New York. how far off of Georgia? in either gaining or losing a seat in the house. thanks for that question? we'll have our demo experts address that on questioning this is Georgia gaining or losing a seat. This answer is similar as far as I don't know how close. They were above the the number 435 as to you know whether they might have lost or not gained one but when we go below this, the number 435 to see the states that almost received another seat they are not among that that list of the ten next states so they weren't close to receiving one more than they got. Thank you for that Operator Do we have our next caller? Tune in with Indiana Gazette your line is open. Yes a good afternoon. Thank you very much. That's that's Indiana, Pennsylvania for what it is worth Pennsylvania. I don't know what specifics you have for the Keystone State did Pennsylvania. gain population, but just not enough of a game to. offset the possible loss of the seat. Thanks for that, thanks for that, let me toss this over to demo and see if we have any data that we can share for your insights on on the state of population specifically and and for all the callers who are calling about specific in relationship to to totals of of pop change and things of that nature I want to remind everyone that after today's news conference, we will be posting our news release as well as tables that support this release that'll assist you in finding those discreet variables, but also another pitch for the public information office. you can always reach out. US if you by chance you don't get to ask your question during today's news conference, we'll we'll more than welcome. We're more than welcome and willing to help you get those direct answers so tossing this back over to Jim. Hi, I just checked one of the tables that will be posted online or may have already been posted online, depending on how we're doing with our live posting. for Pennsylvania, It was 2.4% increase between 2010 census and 2020 census. Was there more to the question? I can't remember. Is the color still there? I think that that addresses it okay, thanks for that Operator Can we have our next caller? Kobe there with Mississippi Broadcasting your line is open. Thank you. I was curious which states and I heard Y'all say the South I saw the largest growth in population, which states saw the largest growth and which they saw in that region, the lowest growth rate. Thanks for that question about the data and so we'll we'll take that data question back to our demo or to see if they have that information at at at their at their fingertips demo. I don't have the list of the states within the south that have the largest increase, but I do have the states the top five states that had the largest percent increase. and that was Utah Idaho, Texas North Dakota and Nevada. Those states had the largest percent increase between 2010 and 2020. Thank you for that. Operator Your next caller. Mark Cabot with the Oakland Press, Your line is open. Yes, hi, this is mark Cain of your friends just wanted to talk about mid Michigan specifically losing one seat in the US House. How close is Michigan to losing two seats and you know talk about the the decrease in population there in Michigan that led to this losing of one seed. Thank you for that line of question about Michigan turning back to our data experts and the demographic director. So I again I don't have the part about what's above the 435, but as far as the next. and dates and the ranking that that just missed getting another state, Michigan is in number 444 in the ranking, which means that you know if they they could have potentially been closer to not losing a seat. However, I just want to mention that for all these questions about how close. Was and if you want to see the part that I'm talking about that II can't I don't have with in front of me that are above 435 on the 2020 census. of course, Results web page. There is a priority values table that's should be posted and that will give you the ranking order of all of this of the seat and the states that just missed below it as well. Thanks for that Kristen because we know that it's very important for people to see themselves in the data, especially with this important. Putting out today Operator Do we have our next caller? Jess Reddick with WS YX, ABC Six your line is open. Alright, you're all able to we can't loud and clear and we're here we're here in Columbus, Ohio and and Central Ohio. Here is a part of the state that experience a significant growth. so I'm wondering how nitty-gritty you can get in terms of where Ohio is is lagging and population growth where else is holding the state back. Thanks for that one one disclaimer or some air cover for our demo experts who are getting a lot of questions today. I want to remind everyone all the the reporters and media outlets that are covering today's release. Today's release takes us down to the state level when we talk about populations and and values and and counts so there is more to come with the 2020 census and future releases when we get below the state level, which I think will give you some insights into into some of the questions that you're asking, but I'll turn it over to the demo and allow them to to give you. They do have to share today. Hi there so again what we can tell you is about Ohio's growth. as state and Ohio's population grew by 2.3% over the last decade and as Michael mentioned once we have our next data released the redistricting data, we'll be able to look more within the state and look at different areas of growth and see how the growth was faster or slower and make those comparisons at that time. Anecdotally, you say how Ohio matches up with the rest of the Midwest. Well, I believe we showed information earlier today that showed that actually the Midwest and the northeast their growth overall was three or 4% over the last decade and that's in comparison to the South and the West where we saw about 9.2 and 10.2% growth. Thank you for that Karen and operator Do we have our next call? Malachi Barrett with LIVE your line is open. And you probably can hear me and my colleague mark here in Michigan actually knocked out of a couple of questions that I was curious about so if I'm also ask if. the coronavirus you know states that were impacted more severely throughout the pandemic that's created any kind of disproportionate impact on you know the ability to accurately record. counts in those states. Obviously, Michigan has some significant struggles with that. For that, that line of questioning, we can definitely give you a little bit about the the data, but I'd like to if it all possible allow Alonso to give us a little bit of information about the quality of our operations and in particular the impacts due to the pandemic and the things that we did to ensure a complete and accurate count now. Thank you, Michael. We work very hard to coordinate data from the CDC from state and local governments to ensure that when we send people out into the field we were sending them out at a time when the local community would tolerate or be more open to door-to-door enumerate and what we found was by delaying some of our field operations. we were able to go into the field and successfully collect the data in areas that have high COVID impacts early in the COVID. outbreak. And we feel very confident that we did a good job of collecting data in spite of the COVID-19 outbreak. Operator Do we have our next caller? Rachel Hone with btw six, your line is open. Hi, thank you guys so much for taking questions I've already emailed that email to try and get as much data as possible because I understand the numbers aren't in front of you, but is there anything Wisconsin specific you guys can share I know two of our neighbors experienced losses in the Midwest was like you said the slowest region in terms of growth. I'm just curious if there's any insight you can share about Wisconsin. Thank you for that. let's take a look or let's check in with them and see what we can what we can set on the Midwest in Wisconsin in particular specifically. Wisconsin did have a 3.6% increase in their population between 2010 and 2020, which as Karen mentioned is in line with the Midwest as a whole. Do you want to add anything to that? No II don't think we have additional data at our fingertips at this particular moment for Wisconsin. Thank you thanks for those lines questions as well. I'm operator Do we have our next caller? Olivia Winslow with News Day your line is open. Thank you very much for taking my call. I just did get the numbers from the CIO office, but wanted clarification in the name of the demographer who made the statement. I didn't catch it. I'm I represent. I'm in New York. so I'm concerned they're interested in the New York results and so the photographer who mentioned that New York New York had had eighty-nine and is that right just eighty-nine. more people. Would not have lost a congressional seat confirm that please and tell me the name of the person who said it thank you. Hi, Olivia, This is Michael Cook that was Christian colab and if you go to our electronic press kit, you'll see her name and title. It was Kristen Colab, who made that statement I don't know Kristen if you have anything else number 189 people, you know, I mean that 1% differential that you're talking about that eighty-nine people would be much less than that you know. That's a big loss for just eighty-nine people anybody want to comment on that. I can just confirm that the number when you calculate it is eighty-nine, however. it's not on you. I mean it. it's part of the standard of the method of equal proportions is that it all depends on the overall proportion of all the states within the nation and so, for example, it's not unusual for there to be a small margin like that for in 1970, Utah only 231 people to. Move up from the 436 to the 435th ranking value. Thank you for that Kristen. Operator Do we have our next caller? Anna with Columbus dispatch your line is open. Hi, can you guys hear me you can loud and clear. Oh great. II wanted to ask about Ohio. I know you just spoke with a reporter about New York, but I wanted to ask you know where did Ohio Spit on that chart if New York was just below the line was Ohio like a thousand people off or were we more closer to like we barely kept from losing two seats if that makes sense. It does make sense, Let me toss this over to Christian Cosmo to see if she has that information right in front of her and if she doesn't we'll work on getting that for you from our PIO call in number Kristen what I do have is that Ohio was next in line behind New York so they were at ranking number 437 so they were. close as well to not. Receiving to receiving one more seat than they did. Thanks for that Kristen operator Do we have our next caller? Howard Fisher with Capital Media service, Your line is open. Thank you, I appreciate you guys taking the calls and I know that a lot of us are waiting for the some of the data to be posted but like all of us, I need to be parochial. Arizona is one of the fastest growing states historically yet we didn't gain an anticipated, see how far off are we in terms of of having that seven 760? 767 thousand or whatever it was to get AA Ten seat. Thanks Howard For that question, I'll I'll let them speak to that to that line of questioning about your state. For Arizona, they were ranking number four. as far as the states that were just below the cutoff to receive one more seat than they would have. II. Don't have the numbers in front of me for all of those lower states as far as how much they would need to okay So essentially we we we weren't as close as as Ohio and and New York. So we we weren't. It's not even a question that we were just below the line We we just didn't didn't get there. Okay, great and that will when we finally get this stuff posted if I keep hitting refresh on the on what's supposed to be the kit we'll have the specifics in terms of all of that state by state. That there's a table called priority values a priority values table for the 2020 census It will be closer to the bottom of the 2020 Census for results Web page, which should be live soon and you should be able to get to it from the abortion press kit web page that will show you all of the rankings for seats fifty-one because each state gets one to start with so the rankings from C Fifty-one to about 460. Okay so that you'll be able to see how far below. right and to the extent that somebody in the PIO office can get that posted now you might end up avoiding a lot of these questions, but thank you much. You're welcome. Thank you. Operator Do we have our next call? It's Michelle Quesada with WPTV your line is open. Hi, I have two questions one. they're both. Are you there? Michelle? Are you there? Michelle? It looks like she may have gotten disconnected. Okay. We have a scholar, please our next question comes from Carla Valdez with Univision. Your line is open. Hi, can you hear me we can loud and clear. perfect. I know there wasn't an increase on our population in Texas. Do we know if the Hispanic population increases? Thanks for that, I'll let the demo shed some light on on that day and that specific characteristic for the population of Texas. Hi there So at this point we have processed population totals and we are now beginning the process of. processing the characteristics data collected in the 2020 census so data on race and Hispanic origin, age and sex. so at this. In time, we actually don't have a final numbers to share about the Hispanic population at this time. Thanks for that question, and thanks for that response, Karen Operator I think we're going to go and take our last question. Our last question comes from Frank Lockwood with Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Your line is open. Thank you, I was wondering if you could talk about. what the South is seeing as far as. immigration live birth, some of those things and also you've got a chart that shows priority values for the 2020 census abortion that there are three Arkansas places on there. Can you explain how? A priority value system works. Thanks for that lot of question about property values, I'll toss that over to I believe it looks like to Velcro nope. Sorry No. no. I think it's it's Kristen. That is the expert on on that. Alright. I can answer the part about the priority values but if if Karen wants to follow up to talk about the the shifts in population for the south, she can do that for the priority values the way the method of equal proportions works is that. We calculate. numbers priority values is what we call them that are based on each state's population and the number of potential seats each state could receive and we calculate you know as many of those as could potentially be received up to like 670, I believe and then we rank all of those values and then take number fifty-one through 430. And assigned to each state and then any number any state that had a number below that 435 did not get another seat. And you can also read about this in more detail in the blog that we put out today about how we calculate a portion. And I'll just add that in terms of the population growth in the south, they are really are different reasons for the growth I don't have kind of aggregated statistics just for the south, but there are states like Texas and Florida that definitely are experiencing natural increase again, more births and deaths and these types of states are also experiencing a lot of migration Net migration. be it. Moving internationally into those states. or people moving domestically into those states, so there's more of that moving into the state than people moving out of the state. Thank you to all the speakers all of the results discussed today are available on our website@Census.gov You will find many materials related to the release of the first 2020 census results, including an American count Story a blog a news release and links to the statistics and maps in our portion press kit in about 2 hours, we will release the next set of 2020 census operational metrics through an interactive dashboard along with the blog. With additional quality indicators available in a working paper and blog. please visit Census.gov to access information members of the media, please contact PIO at Census.gov or call 301-763-3030 for any additional questions a live presentation in Spanish will follow the news conference media interested in obtaining Spanish language soundbites should remain on this live stream. 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