PAA and APC signed this letter to Census, BJS, and OMB to express deep concern about BJS's decision to remove questions about gender identity and about hate crimes against transgender people from the NCVS in contradiction to the requirements in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA). This...
06.09.2025_NCVS Letter_Final.pdf
The month of May brought more alarming news from Washington, D.C., impacting federal scientific and statistical research agencies. Below are excerpts from the most recent newsletter issued by the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) , of which PAA is a governing member, regarding...
PAA and APC joined 90 organizations that signed this Census Project letter to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees regarding funding for the Census Bureau in Fiscal Year 2025. #LettersandComments #Census #GPAC2024
PAA, APC and COPS submitted comments to the Census Bureau regarding their proposed timeline for implementing the new Federal race and ethnicity data collection standards. #GPAC2024 #LettersandComments #Census
PAA APC comments on race and ethnicity data collection standards in ACS 8-24 FINAL.pdf
PAA and APC signed the below letter to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives, expressing concerns regarding the Fiscal Year 2025 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee on July 9, 2024. Specifically, the letter states that...
PAA and APC signed on to the Census Quality Reinforcement Task Force comment letter on the proposed information collection request, "Collection of State/Local Administrative Records and Third-Party Data." #GPAC2024 #LettersandComments #Census
PAA & APC submitted testimony to the House Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee in support of funding the Census Bureau, National Science Foundation, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and National Institute of Justice in Fiscal Year 2025. #CongressionalTestimony ...
PAA APC CJS FY 25 House testimony 5-24.pdf
On behalf of The Census Project, a broad-based coalition of business, civic, human services, state and local government, education, and scientific organizations committed to supporting the U.S. Census Bureau’s mission to produce full, fair, complete, and accurate data, we are writing to express...
Five organizations write to express opposition to HR 7109, the Equal Representation Act, which the Oversight and Accountability Committee is scheduled to mark up on April 10, 2024. Our members, which include demographers, statisticians, economists, sociologists, geographers, and...
sign on letter opposing HR 7109 FINAL.pdf
PAA and APC submitted comments in response to a Federal Register Notice published by the U.S. Census Bureau on 20 October 2023 ( Citation 88 FR 72424; Document Number 2023-23249 ) requesting comment on the proposed revision of the American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Communication...
PAA APC comments on ACS RFN 12-23 FINAL.pdf