Oversight of the 2000 Census: Putting the Dress Rehearsals in Perspective : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Census of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, March 26, 1998 |
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accuracy accurate activities actual census address list development answer areas assist BLAGOJEVICH Bureau's plans campaign Census Bureau census design census dress rehearsal census in 2000 census plan census questionnaires Chairman Columbia communities Complete Count Committee concerns conduct Congress Continuing Resolution correct cost DAN BURTON Dan Miller DAVIS OF ILLINOIS DAVIS OF VIRGINIA Director dress rehearsal sites evaluation program failed census focus groups funding GAO report going hiring Hispanic HOLMES households ICM survey implement improve issue mail response rate MALONEY maps master address file Menominee Menominee County Menominee Reservation MIHM MILLER million nonresponse follow-up Office outreach and promotion oversight participants partnership percent population Postal Service problems procedures questions risk ROD BLAGOJEVICH Sacramento sampling and estimation SHADEGG SNOWBARGER South Carolina staff staffing statistical adjustment statistical sampling STEVENS Subcommittee Thank undercount VINCE SNOWBARGER WAXMAN Young & Rubicam
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Page 1 - I ask unanimous consent that all Members' and witnesses' written opening statements be included in the record. Without objection, so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that all articles, exhibits, and extraneous or tabular material referred to be included in the record.
Page 108 - Members' and witnesses' opening statements be included in the record. And without objection, so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that all articles, exhibits, and extraneous or tabular material referred to be included in the record. Without objection, so ordered.
Page 100 - Mr. Davis. Mr. DAVIS OF ILLINOIS. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Page 44 - Oversight, and to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Page 82 - the results and experiences of the 1990 census demonstrate that the American public has grown too diverse and dynamic to be accurately counted solely by the tradition 'headcount' approach and that fundamental changes must be implemented for a successful census in 2000.
Page 116 - The Honorable Dan Miller Chairman, Subcommittee on the Census Committee on Government Reform US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515-6143 Dear Mr. Chairman: Thank you for your letter of June 9, 2000.
Page 1 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CENSUS, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 am, in room 2203, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 50 - While the components of the new approach have been used and tested in the past, the Bureau has not used or tested them in concert with each other, nor in the sequence as presently designed for use in the 2000 Census, and does not plan to do so in the dress rehearsal. Consequently, it will not be known until the 2000 Census whether the Bureau's redesigned procedures will allow it to meet its goal...
Page 58 - Census has made progress in addressing some of the problems that occurred during the 1990 Census.