Gruppi come la Prison Policy Initiative affermano che la pratica del censimento di contare i prigionieri come residenti di carceri, non i loro indirizzi pre-incarcerazione, porta a informazioni fuorvianti sui dati demografici razziali e sui numeri della popolazione<ref>{{cita web|url=http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/impact.html|titolo=The Problem|editore=Prisoners of the Census |data=26 settembre 2005 |accesso=|lingua=en}}</ref>.
InNel 2010 Jaime Grant, thenallora directordirettore ofdel the [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]]'s Policy Institute, thought of thepensa all'idea ofdi aun brightadesivo pinkrosa stickerbrillante forper peoplele topersone stickomosessuali onsulla theirloro censusbusta envelopedel whichcensimento hadche apermetteva formloro fordi themselezionare touna checkcasella adi boxqueste for eithercaselle: "lesbianlesbiche, gay, bisexualbisessuali, transgendertransessuali", orcon straightil ally,"loro whichgruppo her group calledchiamato "queering the census."<ref name="nydailynews1">{{citecita web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/queering-census-movement-aims-single-gays-counted-u-s-census-article-1.166898 |titletitolo='Queering the census' movement aims to get single gays counted|publishereditore=NY Daily News|dateaccesso=|accessdatelingua=2015-03-19en}}</ref>." Although the sticker was unofficial and the results were not added to the census, she and others hope the 2020 census will include such statistics.<ref name="nydailynews1"/>
In 2015 [[Laverne Cox]] called for transgender people to be counted in the census.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mic |url=http://mic.com/articles/126013/laverne-cox-calls-for-transgender-people-to-be-counted-differently-in-census-reporting |title=Laverne Cox Calls for Transgender People to Be Counted Differently in Census Reporting |publisher=Mic |date= |accessdate=2015-09-29}}</ref>
