The Administrative Record for the Census Citizenship Question

The Department of Commerce and Census Bureau have filed more than 12,400 pages of internal documents as part of federal lawsuits challenging the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Together, these documents make up the administrative record and provide crucial insight into the Commerce Department’s decision to add the question. 

We have broken the record up into easy-to-download, fully searchable files, viewable here: 

• 000001 – 0001320 (99.35 MB)

• 0001322 – 0003735 (338.9 MB)

• 0003736 – 0005000 (344.57 MB) 

• 0005001 – 0006151 (493.24 MB) 

• 0006152 – 0007142 (471.51 MB)  

• 0007143 – 0008015 (392.12 MB)

• 0008016 – 0009000 (333.66 MB)

• 0009001 – 0009801 (270.67 MB)

• 0009802 – 0010607 (148.54 MB)

• 0010608 – 0012464 (416.71 MB)