You've provided analysis regarding racial minority populations and undercounting those groups, and it seems much of the political debate has been focused on such matters. To my knowledge, this issue has yet to surface. In the meantime, I suppose inferences can be drawn on the basis of household living arrangement that are now reported, especially on the census long form. But there is no principled reason why the census couldn't move in this direction in the future. I believe I answer this in my policy brief .
Minority groups have real problems many of which are difficult to address.
This seems like an easier way of responding to minorities. But the result, I believe, could be disastrous for the census and for all Americans. While race has little basis in science, people treat race as real and therefore public policy treats it as real as well. They've got the right. So, why doesn't the census just leave them alone and count the people who agree to be counted.