Side by Side: How the Decennial Census and American Community Survey help us understand communities

University of Minnesota Extension Educator Ellen Wolter talks with Ryan Allen, University of Virginia urban planning professor; Jose Pacas, Director of Data Leadership and Investment at the Constellation Fund; and Allison Liuzzi, Project Director at Minnesota Compass, about the U.S. Decennial Census and its role in providing essential population counts for representation, funding, research, and redistricting. They discuss the importance of census data for understanding rural, urban, and suburban communities and for their research to better understand immigrant and refugee communities.