Dear Census Partner,

The 2020 Census is now available online at 2020census.gov!

As your Partnership Specialist contact, I wanted to thank you for your partnership in encouraging your constituents to complete the questionnaire. The most accurate response is a self response and an early response helps to ensure that no one will come knocking on your community members' doors starting in mid May.

With respect to COVID-19, Census 2020 is moving ahead according to plan. The Census Bureau will follow the guidance of Federal, State, and local health authorities.

Some resources and answers to recently and frequently asked questions:

1) What does the Invitation to Respond envelope look like?

See visuals of our Census 2020 mailings here:

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2020/2020-census-mailings.html

2) Can I answer the questionnaire without the code in the Invitation to Respond? Yes! Visit my2020census.gov to complete the questionnaire with or without a code.

3) Will my geographic area receive the paper form first or only the invitation to respond?

Take a look at the Mail Contact Strategies Viewer -- if your census tracts are in green then your area will receive the invitation to respond and the paper questionnaire in the first mailing. Remember, anyone who does not respond by phone or online will receive a paper questionnaire as part of their 4th mailing.

https://gis-portal.data.census.gov/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=7ef5c37c68a64ef3b2f1b17eb9287427

4) I like the paper questionnaire. Will I need to pay to mail it back? No, it has postage on the return envelope and is ready to mail.

5) What are the Census phone numbers?

6) What if more than 10 people are in my household? It is best to answer online or by phone for a larger household as you may include up to 99 people in your response.

7) Where can I find language assistance for the census? See print guides in 59 languages here.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/2020-census/planning-management/language-resources/language-guides.html

8) When will I be able to see how well my community is responding? As of March 20th you will be able to Census Self-Response Rates here: https://2020census.gov/en/response-rates.html

9) Will the Census Bureau provide staff at my agency to help my community complete the census? We are staffing Census Response Representatives (CRR) mostly in areas predicted to have a low response rate from March 12 through March 30th. After March 30th, we will deploy CRRs only in areas of low self-response for Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (please see attached flyer regarding MQA).

We will continue to respond with Partnership Specialist staff to support events as available throughout the self response period. Census Takers also known as enumerators will begin non-response follow-up in early May. Please feel free to reach out to me about upcoming events.

Thank you for being a trusted voice in your community and for motivating and energizing your constituents to complete the 2020 Census. I look forward to hearing from you!

Warm regards,

Thank you,

Barbara

Barbara L Hemeleski Brown, Senior Partnership Specialist, New Jersey Field Office/ New York Regional Census Center/ U.S. Census Bureau, Cell 609.954.3892, Barbara.brown@PROTECTED

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Census self-response begins MARCH 12th, 2020. More information is available at www.2020census.gov.