As the U.S. Census Bureau prepares for its most diverse count yet, officials have chosen multicultural Los Angeles to test a pilot project that uses technology to collect responses for the first time in four different languages.4 languages!
This test — which includes English, Spanish, Korean and Chinese — aims to lay the groundwork for the census four years from now, when the government counts the estimated 330 million people in the country.
Los Angeles County's large Asian American population, varying levels of Internet access and high number of vacant homes allows the census to test several things at once.
Over the next six weeks, the U.S. Census Bureau will mail several notices to 225,000 homes in the Los Angeles area asking people to go online and answer questions about how many people live in their home, how they are related and who owns the property.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Census test begins in Los Angeles County this weekend
The L.A. Times reports: