2021-09-09 Redistricting Commission minutes (2nd Session)

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YOSHINA: When you ended your comments just now. JONES: Yes. YOSHINA: You said that it seems that they are counted. JONES: Well, everyone gets counted somewhere. The question is where they get counted. That’s where there’s a whole set of rules that the Bureau of Census uses for that. YOSHINA: Okay, thank you. JONES: Yeah. KOSSOW: Thank you, Mr. Yoshina and Ms. Lui. Any other questions? (No response.) No. Thank you, Corporation Counsel. BATH: Chair? Hi, um… KOSSOW: Yes. BATH: Yeah, I had just one question. KOSSOW: Ms. Bath. BATH: If people are hospitalized, during when their block is having the census taken, do census workers go into the hospitals and determine each individual patient’s residence? How is that done? JONES: I think if there are people who are—I mean, they’re permanently hospitalized, or they’re bed-ridden—they are in a hospital setting, there is a group quarters count the census does. I mean, they are still counted there. The census wants to count as a general rule, where do you sleep at night, right? And, so if by and large, most of the time, they are sleeping in a hospital facility most of the year, that’s where they’d be counted. If they were only there for a couple of weeks, no, they’d be filling out a census form for where they reside. If they don’t get a census form, the census would go to homes, right? And follow up. Of course, now you can file online also. But that’s my understanding. Again, I’m not the detail person on the census data so, but that’s my understanding of how people are counted in those kind of group residential facilities, whether it’s military group quarters, student group quarters, or in this case, hospital quarters like that, where they really are. That is where they are, most of the time. KOSSOW: Any other questions? Good? (No response.) Alright, we’re moving over to testifying because we moved that over to after—for here. 30