WHEREAS, The fundamental constitutional and statutory purpose
of the Census Bureau in conducting the decennial census is to
acquire an accurate and actual enumeration of the population;
and
WHEREAS, To ensure that the Census Bureau counts everyone in
the right place, residence criteria and residence situations are
developed and used to determine where people are counted during
each decennial census; and
WHEREAS, As part of its residence criteria, the Census Bureau
applies the concept of usual residence, which is defined as the
place where an individual lives and sleeps most of the time and
is not always the same as one's legal residence, voting
residence or where an individual prefers to be counted; and
WHEREAS, The concept of usual residence stems from the Census
Act of 1790, which expressly specifies that persons be
enumerated at their usual place of abode; and
WHEREAS, Every decade, the Census Bureau reviews the
residence criteria and residence situations to ensure that the
concept of usual residence is interpreted and applied
consistently with the intent of the Census Act of 1790, to
identify new or changing living situations resulting from
societal change and to address those changes in order to be
consistent with the concept of usual residence; and
WHEREAS, Although determining usual residence is
straightforward for most individuals, there are certain
populations for which it is not; and
WHEREAS, Such populations include incarcerated individuals,
foreign citizens, people who live or stay in more than one
location, people in residential school-related facilities,
college students, people in health care facilities, United
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