PAA and APC signed the Census Project letter regarding the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations for the U.S. Census Bureau. The final letter is posted on the Census Project website . The letter requests the final FY 2026 CJS bill provide the Census Bureau with no less than $1.6765 billion—the amount...
PAA, Association of Population Centers, Association of Public Data Users, Consortium of Social Science Associations, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics and American Statistical Association have co-written a letter to express opposition to HR 151, the Equal Representation...
On behalf of the organizations we represent, the Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC), we are responding to the President’s purported call for a new, mid-decade census that would, for the first time ever, exclude undocumented immigrants. ...
PAA APC statement on special census 8-25 FINAL.pdf
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