Starting today, the Census is all yours

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The national Census, which is conducted every 10 years, is important since most companies and federal agencies use Census data as the basis for their own surveys and the government uses it to enforce anti-discrimination, voting and civil rights laws. The Census also ensures that everyone has equal representation in Congress. However, the Census Bureau expects only 61% of 98 million households to take the roughly 10-30 minutes required to answer forms for the 2000 Census.

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Fewer than half return Census forms

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The Census Bureau has reported that only 42% of the Americans who received their Census 2000 forms through the mail have returned them. The agency reported that as of Mar 25, 2000, only roughly 50 million of the 118 million homes which had received questionnaires during the week of Mar 13, 2000, had returned the forms. Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt said that it would take another week of data before the agency could determine whether this phase of the Census is a success.

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Census looks in a new direction for homeless

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Up to 100,000 Census Bureau workers will canvass highway underpasses, parks, dry river beds, mobile food vans, mobile clinics, shelters and soup kitchens across the US to determine the number of Americans who live in 'unconventional housing' during the week of Mar 27, 2000. The agency believes that it has a better chance of tracking down the homeless population if it targets places which offer these people services. Urban Institute official Martha Burt noted that the number of homeless people in the US has increased to roughly 840,000 despite a booming economy.

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