5 Dec
1998
5 Dec
'98
11:26 p.m.
Vol. 2 - No. 46 Dec. 4, 1998
A newly redesigned section of the Census Bureau's Internet
site contains a storehouse of information about Census 2000
news and articles, plans and operations, promotional ideas,
business opportunities and job postings.
The United States Census 2000 page
http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/2khome.htm is divided into the
following six subsections: What's New; General Information;
Partnerships and Promotion; Plans and Operations; Contracts
and Procurement; and Jobs and Employment.
With Census 2000 more than a year off, the Census 2000
section is still in the early stages of construction, but it
already contains a wide array of information about the
decennial census.
Under What's New, links take the browser to a listing of
Census 2000 news releases and drop-in articles that can be
used in organizational newsletters or magazines. To be added
in the future are partnership agreements with national media
organizations, B-roll video clips for television stations,
stock photos and the Census 2000 logo and taglines.
The General Information subsection includes fact sheets on a
variety of topics, reports on the census advisory
committees, frequently asked questions, a glossary of
acronyms, 1990 census data files and adjusted and unadjusted
data from the 1990 census down to the census block level.
Articles describing what partnership organizations, both
governmental and nongovernmental, can do to promote the
census, a list of partnership contacts at the Census Bureau
headquarters and regional offices and a list of publications
and articles fall under Partnerships and Promotion.
The Plans and Operations heading contains the Census 2000
operational plan (April 1998), a report to the Congress, and
discussions of sampling, address list development,
congressional apportionment and legislative redistricting,
as well as early reports on the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal.
Contracts and Procurement covers statements of need,
requests for proposal, lists of bidders and other
procurement information on Census 2000's major contracts:
advertising services; automation infrastructure,
data-capture services and data-capture system, data
dissemination, laptop computer acquisition, telephone
questionnaire assistance, etc.
The job postings are for positions at headquarters and in
the regional offices, at the data capture centers, the
telephone centers and the National Processing Center in
Jeffersonville, Ind.
In the future, links to the Census Bureau's new data
dissemination system, the American FactFinder, as well as to
the American Community Survey and other Census 2000-related
activities will be added to the Census 2000 page. For
further information about this bulletin, contact J. Paul
Wyatt of the Public Information Office on 301-457-3052 (fax:
301-457-3670; e-mail: pwyatt(a)census.gov).