人口普查缩短了一个月，赶在9月30日之前完成所有的统计工作

人口普查缩短了一个月，赶在9月30日之前完成所有的统计工作

The Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month shorter than previously announced, the bureau's director confirmed Monday in a statement.

人口普查局局长周一在一份声明中证实，2020年人口普查局将于9月30日结束所有普查工作，比此前宣布的时间缩短了一个月。

The latest updates to the bureau's plans are part of efforts to "accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts by our statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, as required by law and directed by the Secretary of Commerce," who oversees the bureau, Director Steven Dillingham said in the written statement posted on the bureau's website.

该局计划的最新更新是“根据法律要求和商务部长的指示，在2020年12月31日的法定截止日期前加快完成数据收集和分配统计工作”的一部分，商务部长负责监督该局，局长史蒂芬·迪林厄姆在该局网站上发表的书面声明中说。

These last-minute changes to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the U.S. threaten the accuracy of population numbers used to determine the distribution of political representation and federal funding for the next decade.

根据宪法规定，美国必须对居住在美国的每一个人进行统计，而在最后一刻对这一数据的修改，威胁到了用于决定未来十年政治代表人数和联邦资金分布的人口数量的准确性。

With roughly 4 out of 10 households nationwide yet to be counted and already delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, the bureau now has less than two months left to try to reach people of color, immigrants, renters, rural residents and other members of historically undercounted groups.

全国大约有4/10的家庭尚未被统计，而且已经被冠状病毒大流行耽搁了，该局现在只剩下不到两个月的时间来努力联系有色人种、移民、租房者、农村居民和其他过去未被统计的群体。

The bureau's announcement comes after NPR first reported that the agency had decided to cut short door-knocking efforts for the 2020 census.

在美国国家公共电台(NPR)首次报道该机构决定缩短2020年人口普查的上门调查之后，美国人口调查局发表了上述声明。

Before the pandemic hit, counting for the 2020 census was originally supposed to be finished by the end of July. But in April, the bureau, with public support from President Trump, announced that it needed to extend its timeline, including pushing back the end of counting to Oct. 31.

在大流行爆发之前，原定于7月底完成2020年人口普查的统计工作。但今年4月，该局在特朗普总统的公开支持下宣布，它需要延长倒计时时间，包括将倒计时的截止日期推迟到10月31日。

But during a hearing last week before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Dillingham signaled a shift in plans by telling members of Congress that "the Census Bureau and others really want us to proceed as rapidly as possible."

但在上周众议院监督与改革委员会的听证会上，迪林厄姆向国会议员们表示，计划将发生转变，他告诉国会议员们，“人口普查局和其他机构真的希望我们尽快着手。”

The bureau also asked Congress to push back by four months the legal deadline of Dec. 31 for reporting the latest state population counts to the president. Delaying that deadline would allow the bureau to keep counting through Oct. 31 to "ensure the completeness and accuracy of the 2020 Census," Dillingham and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement released in April.

该局还要求国会将12月31日向总统报告本州最新人口统计的法定截止日期推迟四个月。迪林厄姆和商务部长威尔伯·罗斯在4月发表的一份声明中表示，推迟这一截止日期将使统计局能够一直计算到10月31日，以“确保2020年人口普查的完整性和准确性”。

As early as May, top career officials at the bureau have said the bureau has already "passed the point" of meeting the current census deadlines.

早在5月份，人口普查局的高级职业官员就表示，人口普查局已经“超过了”当前人口普查的最后期限。