人口普查局在13个州雇佣工人，恢复手工递送表格

人口普查局在13个州雇佣工人，恢复手工递送表格

Some workers for the 2020 census are heading back to rural communities this week in more than a dozen states as part of a phased-in restart of field operations for the national head count that were suspended in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

一些参加2020年人口普查的工人本周将返回十几个州的农村社区，这是分阶段重启全国人口普查现场工作的一部分。今年3月，由于冠状病毒大流行，全国人口普查暂停。

Certain local census offices in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia are resuming operations this week, the Census Bureau announced Monday.

美国人口普查局周一宣布，阿拉巴马州、阿拉斯加州、阿肯色州、爱达荷州、缅因州、密西西比州、蒙大拿州、北达科他州、俄克拉荷马州、田纳西州、犹他州、佛蒙特州和西弗吉尼亚州的一些地方人口普查局本周将恢复运作。

Workers there are set to undergo safety training and receive personal protective equipment, the bureau said, before they're sent out to hand-deliver paper census forms in areas where most homes receive mail at post office boxes or drop points.

人口普查局表示，在大多数家庭通过邮箱或投寄点接收邮件的地区，工人们将接受安全培训并接受个人防护装备，然后才会被派去手工递送纸质的人口普查表。

Asked by NPR what specific "social distancing protocols" census workers will have to follow, the Census Bureau says in an email that it's relying on CDC guidance, including standing six feet away from another person.

美国国家公共电台(NPR)询问人口普查局的工作人员需要遵守哪些具体的“社会距离协议”时，人口普查局在一封电子邮件中表示，它依赖于CDC的指导，包括站在离另一个人6英尺远的地方。

In addition to ordering disinfectant wipes for its local offices, the bureau tells NPR it is preparing to provide each employee a new reusable face mask for every 10 days worked and a pair of gloves each work day. Employees conducting field operations will also receive hand sanitizer.

除了为当地办公室订购消毒湿巾外，该局还告诉美国国家公共电台(NPR)，它准备为每10天工作的员工提供一个新的可重复使用的口罩，并在每个工作日提供一双手套。进行现场操作的员工也将得到洗手液。

The bureau is also preparing to resume fingerprinting for newly hired door knockers, who are currently set to visit homes that haven't yet participated in the count, starting in August.

该局还准备从今年8月开始，重新为新雇来的敲门者进行指纹识别。目前，这些敲门者将前往尚未参与计数的家庭。

Monday's announcement comes after Census Bureau officials informed the House Oversight and Reform Committee late last month of its plans to switch from a nationwide relaunch of field operations on June 1 to a restart in waves based on public health guidance and the availability of protective equipment.

周一公布这一消息之前，美国人口普查局官员上个月底通知众议院监督和改革委员会，计划从6月1日在全国范围内重启外勤业务，改为根据公共卫生指导和保护设备的供应情况，一波接一波地重启。

Despite the pause, the bureau has continued collecting responses from households across the country. As of Sunday, close to 84 million households have participated — most of them online at my2020census.gov.

尽管暂停了调查，该局仍在继续收集全国各地家庭的反馈。截至周日，已有近8400万家庭参与其中，其中大部分是在my2020ccensus.gov网站上进行的。

Because the pandemic has wreaked havoc on its schedule for the 2020 census, the bureau has proposed pushing back the legal deadlines to deliver new state population counts to the president.

由于这场流行病对2020年人口普查的日程造成了严重破坏，统计局提议推迟法定期限，向总统提交新的州人口统计数据。