What is the source of the overseas population counts?
Overseas counts by home state were provided by the employing federal departments and agencies from their administrative records. • Question: Are the overseas population counts used for redistricting? Answer: No, the overseas counts are used solely for reapportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The home state data for the overseas population do not meet the substate geographical precision required to conduct redistricting (i.e., blocks). • Question: Which overseas groups were assigned to a home state for purposes of apportionment? Answer: Home state could be allocated for overseas U.S. Armed Forces and their dependents living with them and most overseas federal civilian employees and their associated dependents, except those overseas civilian employees and dependents of the Department of Defense (DOD). Home state information was not available for a number of overseas DOD civilian employees, as there is no DOD requirement for them to report this information. • Question: O
