Congress Urged to Scrap Proposed Curb on Census Data Collection

An advocacy group for statisticians urged House lawmakers to strike a provision in a spending bill that would restrict the Census Bureau’s ability to repeatedly contact respondents, cautioning the proposal could hamper the accuracy and reliability of government statistics.

from mint - politics An advocacy group for statisticians urged House lawmakers to strike a provision in a spending bill that would restrict the Census Bureau’s ability to repeatedly contact respondents, cautioning the proposal could hamper the accuracy and reliability of government statistics.