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handle is hein.crs/govbfyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FF. ' ,iE ,E .$r. i , Updated January 6, 2020 Overview of FY2020 Appropriations for the Census Bureau This In Focus presents an overview of FY2020 discretionary budget authority for the Census Bureau, including the FY2020 budget request, related congressional actions, and comparisons with FY2019 funding. As a Department of Commerce (DOC) agency, the bureau is funded through the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations bills. The Administration's $6,149.4 million FY2020 budget request for the Census Bureau was $2,328.0 million (60.9%) above the $3,821.4 million appropriated for FY2019. The FY2020 request was divided between the bureau's two major accounts, Current Surveys and Programs, and Periodic Censuses and Programs (PCP). < urrnk'Su--vysamed rk'k-rcan-s The FY2020 request for Current Surveys and Programs was $264.0 million, $6.0 million (2.2%) below the $270.0 million enacted for FY2019. Under this account are Current Economic Statistics and Current Demographic Statistics. Curen Swkisdc Current Economic Statistics include business, construction, manufacturing, general economic, foreign trade, and government statistics that, as the FY2020 budget justification for the Census Bureau stated, provide critical information about the U.S. economy and underlie key economic indicators like gross domestic product (GDP). The request for Current Economic Statistics in FY2020 was $185.3 million, $411,000 (0.2%) above the $184.9 million approved in the bureau's FY2019 spending plan. Current Demographic Statistics include those from household surveys like the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is undertaken jointly by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is two-thirds funded by BLS, and provides monthly unemployment rates; analyses of population and housing characteristics, as in the Current Population Reports, which are based on CPS and other data and are the official source of U.S. income and poverty statistics; the Housing Vacancy Survey; intercensal demographic and housing unit estimates for the total United States and subnational geographic levels; and population projections into the future. The $78.7 million FY2020 Current Demographic Statistics request was $6.4 million (7.5%) less than the $85.1 million the FY2019 spending plan approved and was consistent with a proposed cut in the SIPP sample size. Under the FY2020 request, Periodic Censuses and Programs was to receive $5,885.4 million, $2,334.0 million (65.7%) above the FY2019-enacted $3,551.4 million, and 95.7% of the Census Bureau's total FY2020 request, mainly to fund the 2020 decennial census. About $3.6 million of the amount for PCP was to be transferred to the DOC Office of Inspector General (OIG) for continuing bureau oversight. Four major programs under PCP, plus the bureau's critical information technology initiative, are discussed below. The decennial census is the bureau's largest, most costly undertaking. Article I, Section 2, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, as amended by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, requires a population count every 10 years, to apportion seats in the House of Representatives. The data also are used to redraw state congressional and legislative districts and, with census-related American Community Survey (ACS) data and intercensal estimates, in formulas to determine states' and localities' annual shares of federal funds, estimated at $675 billion to about $1.5 trillion. The FY2020 request for the census was $5,297.0 million. The budget justification stated that another $1,020.0 million in prior-year funds was to be available, plus $83.3 million in information technology support through the bureau's new Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing system (CEDCaP), totaling $6,400.3 million in FY2020 to support the census. The total, while not strictly comparable to the $3,015.1 million approved in the FY2019 spending plan, exceeded this figure by $3,385.1 million (112.3%) and reflected the peak year for census expenses. The ACS, which the bureau implemented nationwide in 2005 and 2006, is the replacement for the decennial census long form that, from 1940 to 2000, collected detailed socioeconomic and housing data from a sample of U.S. residents. Sent monthly to small population samples, the ACS covers more than 3.5 million households yearly, in every U.S. county and the District of Columbia. The monthly data are aggregated to produce new estimates every year for areas with at least 65,000 people and every five years for areas from the most populous to those with fewer than 20,000 people. According to the budget justification, the bureau releases more than 11 billion ACS estimates annually on more than 40 social, demographic, housing, and economic topics. The ACS is the only source of data on many of these topics for rural areas and small populations. Similarly, the Puerto Rico Community Survey, is conducted across 78 county-equivalents there. K~:> p\w -- , gn'a', goo mppm qq\ M , q 'M I 11LIANJILiM,

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