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by danso 1881 days ago
Sure, but (ignoring the Constitutional decennial mandate, which also requires Census subjects to be defined 3 years before the actual counting [0]) what's a cost-effective alternative? The budget for the 2020 Census was $7+ billion [1].

And while the ACS annual surveys are considered accurate, what would be the right period for changing Congressional seat counts? It obviously can't be annual (since House terms are every 2 years).

[0] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/abo...

[1] https://www.census.gov/about/budget.html