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Boston officials tell Senate city saw undercount in 2020; call for early LUCA work and improved ethnicity categories
Summary
City of Boston planning and demographic staff told the Senate committee the city estimated a 2020 undercount of roughly 25,000 residents (including about 7,000 group‑quarters), urged early LUCA engagement and raised concerns about race/ethnicity classification that can obscure Cape Verdean, Brazilian and other communities.
Boston — Boston demographic staff told a Massachusetts Senate committee the city identified a substantial undercount after the 2020 census and urged statewide support for early LUCA participation and improved race/ethnicity reporting.
Alvaro Lima, director of research and demographics for the City of Boston, told the committee the city estimated an undercount of about 25,000 residents in 2020; roughly 6,000–7,000 of those were group‑quarters residents that the city and Census Bureau later adjusted. "We did all that we could, but we end up with that…
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