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Understanding 9/11tv Census Bureau Holds News Conference on 2020 Count CSPAN April 27, 2021 9:01am-10:01am EDT
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♪♪ the u.s. census bureau released the first set of results from the 2020 census, revealing the total u.s. population reached just over 331 million. officials from the census bureau went over the data and how it will affect congressional apportionment in the u.s. house of representatives. this news conference is almost an hour. good afternoon on behalf of the u.s. census bureau welcome to our briefing. we'll release the population
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counts from the 2020 census and resulting changes in apportionment. i'm michael cook, division chief of the public information office and serve as moderator for today's program. some things have changed since we released last decade, notably this decade. many households learned from the census on-line and completed the questionnaire on-line. together, we come together on-line to share the results. one thing has not changed. the census bureau 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 u.s. commerce secretary, dr. gina raimondo, who will followed by dr. ron jarmin who will look back at the 2020 census and population results. we will then take questions
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from credentialed media. welcome, madam secretary. >> hello shall everyone, i'm thrilled to join you on such a momentous day. the census plays a big part of our democracy and i'm so proud of the work done to complete the census and the wonderful work that's coming to fruition. first, i want to thank the dedicated staff at the census bureau. without you today would not have been possible. 2020 brought unprecedented challenges, the global pandemic, destructive wildfires, the most active hurricane season on 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 at the census bureau, with the assistance of state and local governments and
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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 worked tremendously hard over the las year, a complete and accurate count would not have been possible without those who took a few minutes to respond. >> for all of you who responded, new for participating in democracy. as a former governor, i know firsthand how critical census data is for our communities. we know that census data is used to determine how many representatives each state has in congress, but it's much more than that. state and local officials for federal government, nonprofits, all use census data to make
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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 a business 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're 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 apportionment count for each state to the president. per the constitution, these counts determine the apportionment of seats in the u.s. house representatives. this is a unique ritual that has occurred only 23 other times in american history. i assured the president that the census is complete and
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accurate. president biden will then deliver the population counts and apportionment to congress as required by law and our work isn't over yet. we have the redistricting 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's my hour to represent all the hardworking staff at the u.s. census bureau who spent countless hours to assure everyone was counted especially during the covid-19 pandemic and thank everyone to responded during these extraordinary times. when the first census was conducted in 1790, congress expected two million people to be living in the country. when the results came back in 1793, the population exceeded 3.9 million and overnight, the
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number of congressional representatives grew by 40. this number was so much larger than anticipated that they had to add onto independence hall to house the new lawmakers. the first census was a critical step to help build the foundation of our democracy and as we've learned 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 nation has taken the census every 10 years as directed by our constitution. the census is a massive operation that takes care of plans and takes a community to 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 spent a few minutes to complete the census forms. the count began in 2020 in a small alaskan village of
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tooksit bay and it's there we took the counts of the first persons in the 2020 census. in march of 2020 invitations to respond came into mailboxes across the country. and then states had stay at home orders. we knew we had to adapt to protect the health and safety of the public and adapted our schedule to assure we could adapt to statistics and adapted to hurricanes and wildfires. through all of this, we still remained 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 life during the pandemic. we advertised on pizza boxes instead of during basketball
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games and our partners reached out at food banks and cafeterias instead of county fairs and quickly adapted to 46 different lange languages. and we responded to lower housing areas and colleges and universities directly to make sure that their students were counted in the right place. we worked hard to get more to respond especially in the historically undercounted areas. census takers have a hard job to begin with and trying to in globalem about made it more challenges. but for the remaining households that didn't respond on their own, our census takers went out with masks and iphones and had response from them or neighbors. and we were able to use
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households already provided to the government, such as previous responses, tax records or other records. i want to note we appreciate the public's patience as we took the amount of time to assure the accuracy of the count. 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 331,449,281. 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 and 2010 censuses.
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in fact, the growth rate from 2010 to 2020 is the second slowest in u.s. 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 the regions the south grew the fastest over the last decade 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 and 2010 while the other three regions grew slower this decade than the last. we see large variations. state with the largest 2020 resident population california 39,538,223. the state with the smallest population was wyoming with
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576,851. however, the 10 most populous states had resident population between 10 and 40 million. while the 10 least populous states each had a resident population between half a million and 1.4 million. the populations most states grew most in 2020, utah was the fastest growing with 18.4% increase in population, growing to 3.3 million in 2020. on the other hand, three states lost population. with west virginia having the largest rate of decrease 3.2%. p population of the district of columbia grew by 14.6%, puerto rico's population decreased by 11.8% to 3.3 million.
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now let's get to apportionment results from the 2020 census. the constitutional purpose of the census is congressional apportionment, which is the process of distributing the membership for seats in the u.s. house of representatives every 10 years proportional to each state's population. since 1941, the equal proportions will be used to assign house seats to the states. while the law does not require to calculate the census bureau for each state we do it as a courtesy to the president. we apportionment over the 50 states not including the district of columbia and puerto rico because they have no voting seats in the congress. apportionment includes the number of people living in the 50 states, plus the overseas populations, which is a count of federal employees living overseas and their dependents living with them, who are
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allocated to a home state. since 1940, the regional trend with apportionment has been an increase in the number of congressional seats for the south and west, and a loss of congressional seats for the northeast and midwest. more specifically since 1940 there's been a combined net shift of 84 seats to the south and west regions. overall, the effect of the official 2020 census population counts on congressional apportionment is a shift of seven seats among 13 states, which is the smallest number along the states in any decade since the current method of calculating apportionment was adopted in 1941. six states gained seats in the house of representatives, texas will gain two seats. and colorado, florida, montana, north carolina, and oregon will each gain one seat. seven states will each lose one seat in the house.
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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 38 seats. florida with 28 seats and new york with 26 seats. these four states are the most populous 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 one million people and have only one seat. after the first apportionment occurred based on of 1890
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census, each house represented about 34,000 people and now the average population size based on 2020, 761,169 people an increase of 50,402 people per representative when compared to the average of 710,767 people per representative based on the 2010 census. and those are 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. while no census is perfect we're 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 quality of the 2020 census results. despite the challenges of the pandemic the completeness and accuracy of the first 2020 census results are comparable
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to other censuses. we had numerous quality checks in collecting the data and had within of the most comprehensive reviews during data processing in recent history. later today we'll release the next set of quality indicators. this afternoon's release will be unprecedented how soon after the census we're able to provide operational metrics down to the state level. they are just one of the many ways we evaluate and assess the quality of the 2020 census. while ours won't change, it will influence our planning for the next census. we're 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 centers of population. the results for the u.s. 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
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to begin redistricting by august 16th. the census bureau will deliver the final redistricting data tool kit to all the states and the public by september 30th. covid-19 delays and prioritytizing the apportionment results today delayed our original plan. different from previous censuses, the census bureau will deliver the data all at once instead of on a slow basis. i want to thank our tireless staff for everything they've done for the data for the 2020 census and thank the millions who completed the census on their own and provided information to our census takers. thank you. michael, back to you. >> thank you, ron. we'll now begin taking questions from credentialed media about the first 2020 census population results. members of the media who
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registered received a phone number via e-mail from our event flag account. when asking a question please include your name and media affiliation. operator, can you please provide instructions for calling in? >> if you would like to ask a question, press star one, mute your line and speak your name and media affiliation when prompted. to [inaudible] 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 at census.gov. you'll find many materials related to-- [inaudible] while we await callers, let me
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introduce our census bureau with us. we have ron jarmin, director. al associate director. victoria associate director. karen battle chief of population division and kristin, our lead technical expert for the 2020 census apportionment in the population edition. operator, are we ready for our first question? >> first question from mike snyder with associated press. your line is open. >> hi, my question-- this is mike snyder with the associated press. my question is for dr. jarmin, you know, the estimates showed texas was supposed to gain three seat, but only gained two seats. florida expect today gain two seats according to estimates, but only one seat.
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why is it your theory they didn't get extra seats. both have sizable hispanic populations. is there any concern that hispanics were overlooked. >> thanks, i'm going to let ron answer that and also our demographic experts may have information to give you as well. ron. >> thanks for the question, mike. you know, we did do a very thorough job, especially in those areas, making sure that we counted everybody. you know, i think we saw from our population estimates that the population growth had slowed significantly and i think that that, you know, some folks' projections might have been based on slightly higher population growth projections. you know, i'm not the demographer on the call here so maybe i'll turn it over to tori or karen to get more insight into that. >> hi there, good afternoon. so what i'll just mention is that for the state of texas and
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for the state of florida, the 2020 census counts were actually below our population estimates from census 2020. for texas and florida, the difference between the census count and the estimates was about 1% so they were still close, but the 2020 counts were slightly lower than our population estimates. >> thanks for that, karen. operator do we have our next caller? >> our next question comes from politico, your line is open. >> hi there. thanks for being here and taking questions. i want to follow-up on mike's question. rhode island didn't lose a seat and we widely expected florida and texas. i want to reiterate. do you have any explanation why the earlier population
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estimates were over or undershooting, and what is the bureau's level of confidence in this count given everything that's happened in the last year, given the pandemic and changes in the schedule? >> thanks for that line of questioning, i'll pass that back to our demographic experts to at that you can about the quality of the data and specifically the question that asked about the apportionment results. >> tori. >> thanks for that question. we are very confident in the data that we released today. we measured the quality of the census in many ways and one of the ways that we measure the quality of the census is to compare to our population estimates. our population estimates are based on the last census, adding in deaths, births and-- it makes us feel very good about the census counts. >> great.
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thanks for that line of questioning. operator, do we have our next caller. >> our next question from the star tribune. your line is open. >> hi, thanks for taking my question. i was wondering if someone could talk more about how the seats expected to lose like minnesota in preliminary numbers, how it held on? could higher participation have contributed to something like that? >> thanks for the line of questioning and again, i'll lean in and toss this over to to your demographic experts to talk about the count itself. as you stated, those states that lost a seat or were on the verge of gaining a seat. >> i'm sorry. thank you for that question. when i repeat what my
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colleagues have said were they confident in the quality of the data and we've worked hard to ensure that the data that we're using to calculate apportionment is correct. as far as how certain scenarios may have impacted the results of apportionment, we don't tend to speculate on that, we just use the counts that come from the census after they've been finalized. so, we will continue to look into the quality of the data as we move forward. >> thank you, kristin. and thank you, caller, for that question. operator, do we have our next caller? >> jeanette o'day with the st. louis dispatch. your line is open. >> hi there. >> hi, thanks so much for having me. i really just need a couple of basic data points from you. i'm the data person. can you tell me what the
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population of missouri is and illinois is? >> what i'm going to suggest for you if you don't mind. we have public affairs specialist on our comes line if you connect them 301-763-3030 we'll get you the numbers right away to file your story. okay, can you still hear me here? >> we can. >> is that information not searchable on your data portals right now? >> well, ma'am, we're actually conducting a live conference or news conference and q & a and some of our attendees don't have the data base at their fingertips, just to expedite getting you that response i wanted you to reach out to our public information office if that's quite all right by you. >> okay, yes, i will do that, thank you so much. >> thank you so much for thank you for your continued interest in the 2020 census. operator, can we have our next
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caller? >> dayne clark with pbs public broadcasting, your line is open. >> can you hear me? >> we can, loud and clear. >> all right. great. so just looking at new york specifically and given your answer to the last reporter i'm not sure if you know, but specifically, is there any indication of where new york's population is going in terms of which states they're moving to or people-- 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 that over to our demographics director specialist or expert. >> thank you. actually i was just going to start and say we do know from our population estimates that the state of new york has experienced negative net domestic migration, meaning there were more people moving
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out of the state of new york over the last decade than moving into the state. i don't have right here information on specifically which states people were moving to, but that's something that could be discussed with subject matter experts at the census bureau. >> can i just add that actually new york grew between 2010 census and the 2020 census by about 4.2%. >> thanks for that. >> i was just going to follow up on the last part of the question. asked how close new york was and so what we have is that if new york had had 89 more people, they would have received one more seat instead of the last state, their last seat 435 seats so the last seat went to minnesota and new york was next in line, and if you do
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the equation to determine how many they would have needed 89 people, but that's if you hold the population of all other states constant. >> can you still hear me? >> we can. >> so if we had counted 89 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? >> gb wire.com. your line is open. >> hi there. [inaudible]
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can you hear? operator, i don't think they-- your line is open. all right. >> hello, hello, hello? hello. >> we can hear you loud and clear now. >> excellent, sorry, my button was pushed. this is jim jacobs with tv wire.com. and mine california where i'm at. can you talk about the shifting demographics in the state of california, inflow versus outflow and how close were we to losing a potential second seat or in the case of new york, how close to not losing one seat if that makes sense? thank you. >> thanks for that line of questions and because it's about the results i'll turn that over to our demo experts. >> hi there. 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
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actually experienced natural increase where they were able to gain population because there were more births than 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 population count in the census. >> thanks for that, karen. operator do we have our next caller-- >> i'm sorry. >> go ahead, go ahead. >> go ahead, sir. >> just waiting for the rest of the answer, he asked how close california was. and what i can tell you is that as i've said before, there's 435 seats. if you continued down the rankings, california was at
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number 441. so that's about six steps down from gaining the next seat. >> thank you for that, kristin. 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 with arkansas and oklahoma, seats in the south where they're next to big states like texas who have seen an increase in population. i'm curious if you've seen data about growth in those states and why maybe they haven't received 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 demographics experts. >> in terms of whether -- why a
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state has not gained or lost a seat, it all depends on population distribution for any given centennial census. so if the population in relation proportional relation to the other state hasn't changed, then they won't gain or lose a seat. >> thanks for that, kristin. operator, do we have the next caller? >> hi, with politico, your line is open. >> hi, with illinois playbook and politico. can you talk a little about the inmigration, out migration of illinois and how close from losing a second seat. is there a chance for block by block information is released earlier than september? >> thanks for that line of questioning and we'll take it back to our demographic experts
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for explanation, albeit be mindful that the set of data that we've released is only down to the state level as far as the geography is considered and more details to follow as we continue to disseminate the results. 2020 census. >> so i'll start. so illinois was actually one of the three states that actually lost population over the last decade and we know from our population estimates program that the state of illinois had negative net domestic migration. again, there were more people moving out of that state than moving into that state. i'll turn it over to kristin 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 that would require me to look
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above 435 to see how close they were to seat 435, but when i look at the states that were direct, the 10 states directly below 435, illinois is not among them. so illinois was not close to getting-- or to not losing another seat if that makes sense. >> thanks for that. reporter, operator, do we have our next caller? >> chicago sun times. your line is open. >> thank you, in interests-- but i want to follow up with my colleagues from missouri and illinois playbook, could you make it just a little clearer, is the lost population in illinois, but it was more of a matter of other states just had such big gains and even if they had held steady we might have lost a seat, meaning was it
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really our loss or was it because other states just gained more that we lost a seat? >> coming right back to you. >> we can't really comment-- i mean, we can't really speculate on that because it's all about the distribution overall. it's 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. theoretically if they gain more proportionally they would be more likely to gain. >> thank you for that. operator, do we have our next caller? >> roxanne scott with wabe
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news. your line is open. >> okay, thank you. can you hear me? >> okay loud and clear. >> yes, thank you. i wanted to know similar to new york, how far off was georgia in either gaining or lose ago seat? in the house? >> thanks for that question. we'll have our demo experts address that line of 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 number seat 435 as to whether they might have lost or not gained one, but when you go below the number 435 to see the states that almost received another seat, they are not among that list of the 10 next states. so they weren't close to
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receiving one more than they got. >> thank you for that. operator, do we have our next caller? >> pat with indiana gazette, your line is open. >> afternoon, thank you. indiana, pennsylvania for what it's worth. pennsylvania, i don't know what specifics you have for the keystone state. did pennsylvania gain population, but just not enough of a gain to offset the possible loss of a seat? >> thanks for that. let me toss this over to see if we have any data shared for your insights on the state population and all the callers calling in relationship to the totals 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
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well as tables that support this release, that will assist you in finding both discrete variables, but also another pitch for the public information office, you can always reach out to us by chance you don't get to ask your question during today's news conference, we're more than welcome, welcome and willing to help you get those direct answers. tossing this back over to demo. >> i just checked one of the tables that will be posted joen line or may have already been posted on-line, 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.
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>> is the caller still there? i think that addresses it. thanks for that. >> operator, do we have our next caller? >> harvey vance with mississippi broadcasting. your line is open. >> thank you, i was curious, which states-- i heard the south saw the largest growth in population, which states held the largest growth and way states saw in that region, the lowest growth rate? >> thanks for that question. about the data and so, we'll take that data question back to our demo experts to see if they have information ready at their fingertips. demo. >> i don't have the list of the states within the south that had the largest increase, but i do have the states, the top five states that had the largest percent increase. and that was utah, idaho,
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texas, north dakota, and nevada. those states had the largest percent increase between 2010 and 2020. >> thank you for that. operator, do we have our next caller? >> mark, oklahoma press, your line is open. >> hi, mark. >> yes, yes, hi. mark cabot at oklahoma press. i wanted to talk about michigan losing a seat in the house, how close was michigan to losing two seats and talk about the decrease in population there in michigan that led to this losing of one seat. >> thank you for that line of questioning about michigan. turning back to our data experts and the demographics director. >> so again, i don't have the point about what's above the 435, but as far as the next 10 states in the ranking that just
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missed getting another seat michigan is in number 444 in the ranking which means that you know, if they could have potentially been closer to not losing a seat. however, i just want to mention that for all of these questions about how close a state was and if you want to see the question talking about, i don't have the list in front of me above 435. on the 2020 census web page there's a priority values table that should be posted and that will give you the ranking order of all of the seats and the states that just missed below it as well. >> thanks for that, kristin, because we know it's important for people to see themselves in the data and especially with this release we're putting out today. >> operator do we have our next caller? >> jesse with wsyx-abc 6.
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your line is open. >> can you hear me. >> loud and clear. >> we're here in columbus, ohio and central ohio as part of the state that experienced significant growth. i'm wondering how nitty-gritty you can get in terms of where ohio is lagging in population growth, where else is holding the state back? >> thanks for that. 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 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 values and counts. so, there is more to come with the 2020 census in the future releases when we get below the state level which i think will give you some insights into some of the questions that
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you're asking. i'll turn it over to the demo and allow them to give you information they do have to share today. >> hi there. so, again, what we can tell you is about ohio's growth as a state and ohio's population grew by 2.3% over the last decade. and as michael mentioned, once we have our next data release, our 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 can 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 3 or 4% over the last decade and that's in comparison to the south and the west where we saw
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about 9.2 and 10.2% growth. >> thank you for that, karen. and operator do we have our next caller? >> malahki with mlive. your line is open. >> thank you, hopefully you can hear me and my colleague mark in michigan knocked out a couple of questions i was curious about. and also ask if the coronavirus, you know, states were impacted more severely throughout the pandemic, if that created any kind of disproportionate impact on the ability to count those states. obviously michigan had significant struggles with that. >> thanks for that line of questioning. we can definitely give you a little about the data, but i'd like to, if at all possible, allow al fontenot who give us information about the quality
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of our operations and in particular, the impacts due to the pandemic and things that we did to ensure a complete and accurate count. al. >> thank you, michael. we worked veried hard-- we worked very hard to coordinate data when we sent people out in the field we were sending out at a time when the local community would tolerate or be more open to door-to-door enumeration and what we found by delaying some of our field operations we were able to go into the field and successfully collect the data in areas that had 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 outburst. >> thank you, al. operator. do we have our next caller?
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>> rachel hoffmeyer with nbc26. the line is open. >> thank you guys for taking questions. i've already e-mailed that e-mail to try to get as much data as possible because i understand the numbers aren't in front of you, but there anything wisconsin you can share. i know two of our neighbors experienced losses and the midwest was the smallest region in terms of growth. 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 demo and see what light we can shed on the midwest and 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
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that, karen? >> no, i don't think we have additional data at our fingertips at this particular moment for wisconsin. >> thank you. thanks for those lines of questions as well. 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 pio office, but i wanted clarification in the name of the demographer who made the statement, i didn't catch it. i represent-- i'm in new york so i'm concerned, interested in the new york results and so, the demographer mentioned that new york had had 89 and is that right, just 89 more people it would not have lost a congressional seat? confirm that, please, and tell me the name of the person who said it, thank you. >> hi, this is michael. that was kristin, and if you go
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to our electronic press kit you'll see her name and title. kristin koslav i don't know-- >> 89 people, i mean, that 1% differential that you're talking about, that 89 people would be much less than that, so wow. that's a big loss for just 89 people. anybody want to comment on that? >> i can just confirm that the number when you calculate it is 89, however, it's not -- i mean, 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 would be a small margin like that. in 1970 utah only needed 231
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people to move up from the 436 to the 435th ranking value. >> thank you for that kristin. >> operator, do we have our next caller. >> columbus dispatch, your line is open. >> hi, can you hear me? >> we can, loud and clear. >> oh, great. i 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 sit 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 kristin to see if she has that
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information right in front of her. if she doesn't, we'll work on getting that for you from our pio call-in number. kristin. >> 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 -- to receiving, to receiving one more seat than they did. >> thanks for that, kristin. operator do we have our next caller? >> howard fisher with capital media service, your line is open. thank you, appreciate you guys taking the calls and i know a lot of us are waiting for data to be posted. like all of us, i need to be parochial. arizona was one of the fastest growing states historically yet we didn't gain an anticipated seat. how far off were we in terms of
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having that 767,000 or whatever it was to get a 10th seat? >> thanks for that question. i'll let demo speak to that. that line of questioning about your state. >> for arizona they were ranking number 440, as far as the states that were just below the cut-off to receive one more seat than they would have. i 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 weren't as close as ohio and new york, it wasn't a question we were just below the line. we just didn't get there? >> correct. >> okay. great and now when we finally get this posted, i keep hitting
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refresh on the-- on what's supposed to be the kit, will it have the specifics in terms of all of that state by state? >> there's a table called priority values, priority values table for the 2020 census. it will be closer to the bottom of the 2020 census apportionment results web page which should be live soon and you should be able to get to it from the apportionment press kit page and that will show you the rankings for the 51 because to start with, so the rankings from 51 to about 460. >> okay. you'll be able to see below. >> 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. >> i'm sure they're-- >> thank you.
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>> operator do we have our next caller? >> michelle with wptv, your line is open. >> hi, i have two questions. one-- [inaudible] >> are you there, michelle? [silence] >> are you there, michelle. >> it looks like michelle may have gotten disconnected. >> okay. we have our next caller, please? >> our next question comes from carlos valdez with univision. your line is open. >> hi, can you hear me?
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>> we can, loud and clear. >> perfect. i know there was an increase on population in texas. do we know if the hispanic population increased, too? >> thanks for that. i'll let demo shed some light on that data and that specific characteristic for the population of texas. >> hi there. and so at this point we have a processed population totals and we are now beginning a process of processing the characteristics data collected in the 2020 census, so the data on race and hispanic origin, age and sex. at this point in time we actually don't have final numbers to share about the hispanic population at this time. >> thanks for that question and thanks for this response. operator, i think we're going to go and take our last question.
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>> 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 being as far as immigration, live births, some of those things, and also, you've got a chart that shows priority values for the 2020 census apportionment, the three arkansas places on there. can you explain how the priority value system works? >> thanks for that line of questioning about priority values. i'll toss that over to, i believe it looks like tori. no, sorry, karen. >> no, i think it's kristin that is the expert on that. >> i can answer the question about the priority values, but if karen wants to follow-up to talk about the shifts in population for the south, she
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could do that. for the priority values, the way the method equal proportion works, 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 we rank those values and then the number 51 through 435 and assign 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 blogs that we've put out today about how we character late apportionment. >> and i'll just add that in
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terms of the population growth in the south, there 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 than deaths, and these types of states are also experiencing a lot of migration, net migration, be it people moving internationally into those states or people moving domestically into those states. so, there's more 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 at census.gov. you'll find many materials related to the release of the first 2020 census results, including an america counts story, a blog, a news release and links to the statistics and
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maps in our apportionment press kit n about two hours we will release the next set of 2020 census operational metrics during 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 310-763-3030 for any additional questions. a live presentation in spanish will follow the news conference. media interested in obtaining spanish language sound bites should remain on. and we will now take a brief break before our spanish language presentation. >> the u.s. senate is getting ready to gavel in. senators are working on a number of president biden's
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