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The commitment comes after Census officials met with more than 100 disability community stakeholders earlier this fall in an attempt to address fallout after the agency proposed sweeping changes to ...

Ultimately, if the disability questions used by the Census accurately counted all of these groups, the Census should be counting more Americans as disabled, not fewer.

Some of the leading disability researchers against the proposed changes published a report earlier this week highlighting the limitations of the updated questions.

Census Bureau backpedals on changes to disabilities questions amid backlash The Census Bureau received more than 12,000 comments from Americans after notifying the public of the planned change ...

US US Census Bureau faces backlash over proposed changes to disability questions Critics argue that the proposed modifications could reduce the count of people with disabilities by almost half ...

Census Weighs Overhaul Of Disability Questions by Michelle Diament | January 29, 2024 The U.S. Census Bureau says it received thousands of comments after proposing major changes to the way it counts ...

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After public outcries, the U.S. Census Bureau says it's no longer moving ahead with proposed survey changes that could have shrunk a key estimated rate of disability in the U.S. by about 40%.

The National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD), which focuses on working-age adults ages 18–64, uses both question sets and contains other disability questions.

Had it been enacted, the Census Bureau would have changed from using the ACS-6 questions to the WG-SS questions to measure disability in the American Community Survey.