FILE – A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A significant number of non-citizens appear to have been missed in the 2020 census, according to results from a U.S. Census Bureau simulation, during a head count of all U.S. residents in which the Trump administration tried but failed to prevent people in the country illegally from being tallied. (AP Photo/John Raoux, file)

A number of noncitizens appear to have been missed in the 2020 census. That’s according to results from a U.S. Census Bureau simulation that utilized records from government agencies instead of the survey-like responses used in the official once-a-decade tally of every U.S. resident. The simulation results were released Friday. The simulation found that almost a fifth of noncitizens in the administrative records had addresses that couldn’t be matched in the 2020 census. During the 2020 census, the Trump administration unsuccessfully tried to prevent people in the country illegally from being tallied. The census helps determine political power and the distribution of federal funding.