2020 Census Operational Adjustments Due to COVID-19 (official timeline of the Mar. 18, 2020 field-operations suspension and revised schedule)

The record

Jurisdiction

U.S. Census Bureau (2020 Census field operations nationwide)

Level

Federal

Authority

13 U.S.C. 141(a); 13 U.S.C. 4

Issued

2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020

Effective

Field operations suspended 2020-03-18 (initially two weeks, extended to Apr. 15, 2020); phased reopening of area census offices May 4-June 12, 2020 (read as 2020-03-18)

End

Nonresponse follow-up and all field data collection concluded Oct. 15, 2020 (read as 2020-10-15)

In force

Mar. 18, 2020 to Oct. 15, 2020

Quarters

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Business closureTelework mandateWorkplace rules

Addressees

• Census Bureau field staff (about 500,000 planned enumerators)
• area census offices and their landlords and vendors
• partnership and outreach programs
• group quarters and service-based enumeration sites

Functions reached

• WF the largest temporary federal hiring program of 2020 suspended and rescheduled
• OF area census offices closed Mar. 18-May/June 2020
• CS landlords, IT, printing, advertising and logistics vendors to the census
• MK partnership events and outreach cancelled
• CB communities and organizations paid for census outreach

Collection

Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS

Operative words

Planned Schedule / Revised Schedule... [Nonresponse Followup] March 12 - July 31, 2020 / March 12 - October 15, 2020... Field Offices at Peak Operations... March 1, 2020 [suspended]; Phased re-opening occurred between May 4 and June 12, 2020.... [Update Leave] March 15-April 17, 2020 / [resumed] May 22, 2020... [Early Nonresponse Followup] March 16-April 30, 2020 / June 14-July 29, 2020... [Group Quarters Enumeration and Service-Based Enumeration] March 30-April 1, 2020 / September 22 - September 24, 2020... Last Revised: June 10, 2021.

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