Today's hearing will examine the lessons learned from the 2010 Census while identifying initiatives that show promise for producing an even more accurate and more cost effective census in 2020.
Thomas Carper
The Public Record
I would look to using technologies, specifically the Internet and mobile devices, for the communications side.
The Bureau needs to have a dual strategy of reaching both English-language-dominant and Spanish-dominant Latinos.
Good. Well, we are pretty good at talking about things. We will certainly talk about that, too.
It is not uncommon, whether the President is George W. Bush or Barack Obama, to have something that looks like administrative Swiss cheese.
There was less. For example, California in 2000 spent $24 million to promote the census within California.
I do not know that we have a Center for Best Practices for nations like ours that want to learn how to do a census.
So roughly we heard from 95 percent of the people in the country, households or residents.





