{"id":1271,"date":"2020-03-12T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:35:16","slug":"invitations-to-participate-in-the-2020-census-coming-to-mailboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Invitations to Participate in the 2020 Census Coming to Mailboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-five percent or about 143 million households in the country will receive an initial invitation to respond to the 2020 Census in their mailboxes between March 12 and 20. <!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1273 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-logo-sharing-card-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-logo-sharing-card-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-logo-sharing-card-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-logo-sharing-card-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-logo-sharing-card-1536x806.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-logo-sharing-card-2048x1074.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The U.S. Census Bureau released informational copies today of the invitations, the enclosed materials, and the subsequent reminders households will receive. These materials can help the public know what to expect and avoid potential scams.<\/p>\n<p>Households are encouraged to respond when they receive their invitation. Depending on how likely the area is to respond online, households will receive either an invitation encouraging them to respond online or by phone (about 112 million households), or an invitation along with a paper questionnaire (about 31 million households).<\/p>\n<p>All invitations will include a short phrase in English and 12 additional languages inviting people to respond online or by phone in their language. In areas where 20 percent or more of the households need Spanish assistance, the invitations will be in both English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>All households receiving an invitation in the mail will receive a second letter in the mail shortly after reminding them to respond. Then, households that still haven\u2019t responded will receive a series of additional reminders, including a paper questionnaire in mid-April. Census takers will follow up with households that don\u2019t respond to collect responses in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-five percent or about 143 million households in the country will receive an initial invitation to respond to the 2020 Census in their mailboxes between March 12 and 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}