Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees - GCIR

This report explores why more than 1 million young children under age 10 and over three-quarters of a million children under age five were missed in the 2000 Census. The inaccurate count of children is especially important because census figures are used, in whole or in part, for more than 140 programs that distribute more than $400 billion of federal funds to states and localities.

While it has always been difficult to achieve a complete count of kids in the census, report author and Casey consultant William O’Hare anticipates more difficulty in achieving an true count of children in 2010 due to the increased number of children living in unusual housing situations and the growing number of racial and ethnic minority households which have historically been more difficult to count.