2020 Census: The Bureau Has Not Reported Test Results and Executed an Inadequately Designed 2015 Test

This is our final report on the audit of the 2015 Census Test conducted in portions of Maricopa County, Arizona. Our audit had two objectives: to assess (1) whether the Bureau’s reengineered and automated operational control system for managing fieldwork functioned as expected, and (2) the Bureau’s progress for determining whether enumerators are able to use employee-owned mobile devices to collect household data, as well as the status of the Bureau’s efforts to overcome policy and legal issues associated with the use of those devices.