Good morning Ed I am very interested in knowing what is happening around the country. Advertising here is promoting all the wrong reasons for filling out the Census and causing folks to be irate. Talk radio shows here are lobbying for people to either not fill out the forms or to only fill in the number of persons in the household (based on the letter of the law). I think there is going to be a mess with the data received from this area and I wonder what is happening elsewhere. Marsha Marsha Dale Anderson (soon to be Bomar) STREET SMARTS 3400 McClure Bridge Road Building D, Suite A Duluth, GA 30096 770-813-0882 770-813-0688 (fax) marsha(a)streetsmarts-ga.com There is life in the Word of God. "Know that today is called the present - because with each new day it is a gift from God!" *************** Message Notice from the Street Smarts E-mail Server **************** This email message and any files transmitted with it may contain

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*****report last week analyzing the potential effect on the distribution

*****federal funds of an undercount in the 2000 census. The firm of *****PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) prepared the report for the

*****members of the Board. ***** *****PwC studied eight federal programs representing over 82 percent of *****federal grant programs (with obligations over $500 million in fiscal *****year 1998) that rely on census data to determine the allocation of *****funds. For these programs, the report concludes that 26 states and

*****District of Columbia would lose an estimated $9.1 billion in funding *****from 2002-2012 due to a projected undercount in Census 2000. 169 *****metropolitan areas would lose $11.1 billion over the same period, *****according to the analysis, with the affected jurisdictions losing an *****average of $3,391 for each person not counted in the census. PwC

*****the projected funding losses are conservative estimates because it

*****not review all population-based federal programs or any state

*****that distribute funds to counties and cities based on census data. ***** *****Gilbert Cassellas, Presidential Co-chair of the Census *****Monitoring Board, *****said, "This study confirms that a 2000 undercount would result in *****federal funds being sent to places where the need is not the

*****Board member Lorraine Green said at a press conference: "It is in the *****economic self-interest of every American ... to participate in the *****census." The other Presidential appointees on the Board are former *****Commerce Under Secretary Everett Ehrlich and California Lieutenant *****Governor Cruz Bustamante. Dr. Peter Merrill, director of *****PwC's National *****Economic Consulting Group, oversaw preparation of the report. ***** *****PwC estimates that the net national undercount rate for Census *****2000 will *****be 1.75 percent of the population, or nearly 5 million people, a

*****that it called "conservative." The net undercount in 1990 was 1.59 *****percent. To estimate the potential misallocation of funds *****following the *****2000 census, PwC applied the undercount rate for states, counties,

*****cities for the 1990 census to the latest Census Bureau population *****projections for 2000. (The methodology is described more fully in

*****report.) The Bureau measured the 1990 undercount using a 'post *****enumeration survey' conducted in the summer of 1990. PwC also

*****current funding formulas for the programs studied, and funding levels *****cited in the Clinton Administration's fiscal year 2000 Current

*****Budget. ***** *****The Census Monitoring Board was created in late 1997 pursuant to a *****provision of the Census Bureau's funding bill for fiscal year *****1998. The *****Board has eight members: four appointed by President Clinton, two *****appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives (then *****Rep. Newt *****Gingrich), and two appointed by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott *****(R-MS). The Board will operate through September 2001. ***** *****The PwC report, "Effect of Census 2000 Undercount on Federal Funding

*****States and Local Areas, 2002-2012," is available through the *****Presidential Board members' Web site, www.cmbp.gov *****<http://www.cmbp.gov>, and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Web site, *****www.pwcglobal.com <http://www.pwcglobal.com>. The Congressional

*****members, led by Co-chair Kenneth Blackwe ll, maintain their *****own Web site *****at www.cmbc.gov <http://www.cmbc.gov>. ***** *****OMB issues guidance on tabulating race data: The Office of Management *****and Budget (OMB) issued further guidance on tabulating race data

*****its revised standards to federal agencies charged with monitoring and *****enforcing civil rights laws. In a March 9th memo to agency heads,

*****Director Jacob Lew noted that the Census Bureau would publish the

*****range of 63 possible single and multiple race responses from Census *****2000. He said OMB must ensure the "ability to monitor compliance

*****laws that offer protections for those who historically have

*****discrimination [as well as] minimize reporting burden for

*****such as schools and businesses that report aggregate data on race to *****federal agencies." ***** *****OMB modified the policy for collecting data on race and ethnicity in *****October 1997; the new policy allows people to select more than one

*****when they answer the census or fill out forms for employers or

*****The five single race categories are American Indian or Alaska Native, *****Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific *****Islander, and White. Hispanic is considered an ethnicity under the

*****policy, and Hispanics may select one or more of the race options in *****Census 2000 in addition to identifying themselves in a separate *****"Hispanic origin" question. ***** *****For the purpose of reporting data to federal agencies, the OMB *****guidelines call for aggregating the information by the five single

*****categories; four double race combinations projected to be chosen most *****frequently; other multiple race combinations that comprise *****more than one *****percent of the population in the relevant jurisdiction (as *****determined by *****the responsible agency); and a balance category for all other *****responses. ***** *****For civil rights monitoring and enforcement, federal agencies will *****allocate multiple race responses in several ways: combinations of one *****minority race and White are allocated to the minority race; *****combinations *****that include two or more minority races are allocated to the race

*****is cited as the basis for discrimination, in the case of an

*****complaint of discrimination. In cases that require an assessment of *****disparate impact or discriminatory patterns (such as the employment *****record of a particular company), the enforcement agency will review

*****patterns based on alternative allocations to each of the *****minority groups *****reported. ***** *****Interested stakeholders may contact OMB's Office of Information and *****Regulatory Affairs/Statistical Policy Office, at 202/395-3093, or

*****the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms, at www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr *****<http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr>, for further information. ***** *****Congressional oversight continues: Census Bureau Director Kenneth *****Prewitt vigorously defended his agency against charges by a House *****subcommittee chairman that Congress, the General Accounting Office *****(GAO), and other external watchdogs are denied timely access to *****information about census operations and local census facilities. At

*****March 8th hearing of the Subcommittee on the Census, Dr. Prewitt drew

*****distinction between "proper oversight" and "managing the *****census," noting *****that the GAO had recently requested "a terabyte" of *****information equal to *****50 million telephone books. ***** *****Subcommittee Chairman Dan Miller (R-FL) said the Census Bureau "has *****built unnecessary barriers" to gathering information that "will

*****respect for the census." He said Bureau guidelines for *****visits to local *****census offices by congressional staff, Census Monitoring Board *****representatives, and other official observers, "border on arrogant." *****Dr. Prewitt replied that the guidelines apply only to field office *****visits that involve operational staff, and that they help the Bureau *****accommodate requests on a systematic basis. The director pointed to

*****recent letter from Census Monitoring Board Republican Co-chair

*****Blackwell, outlining plans for his staff to visit 31 local census *****offices in March. He said the Bureau has responded to every request *****from its overseers. ***** *****Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the panel's senior Democrat, said she *****wanted to "focus on the good news." "[T]he 2000 census operations

*****on schedule and as of today there are no major problems," she said in *****her opening remarks. In response to the chairman's concerns about *****access to Census Bureau information, Rep. Maloney cautioned against *****"over zealous oversight," saying the director was being criticized

*****an inability to answer a large number of requests, not for his *****implementation of the census. ***** *****Rep. Miller also raised several operational concerns, such as the *****apparent confusion in some English-speaking households over why the *****advance notification mailing included a return envelope. Dr. Prewitt *****acknowledged that the failure to explain the second envelope to those *****not requesting a foreign language form was an "error in judgment,"

*****noted that only a few hundred households out of 115 million

*****had complained. The director told panel members that while there are *****"numerous and constant issues that present problems" during the

*****"we have not yet hit a problem that puts the census at risk." ***** *****The Census Subcommittee will hold its next hearing to review the

*****of census operations on Tuesday, March 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2203 *****Rayburn House Office Building. Representatives of the U.S. General *****Accounting Office will testify. ***** *****State legislative activities update: The Virginia State Senate

*****approved a bill last week prohibiting the use of statistically *****corrected *****census data for redrawing congressional and General Assembly district *****boundaries. The House of Delegates passed the same bill in February. *****The measure awaits a signature or veto by Governor James S. Gilmore

*****(R), who has previously voiced opposition to using sampling methods

*****the census. ***** *****Virginia is one of 16 states subject to section 5 of the 1965 Voting *****Rights Act, which requires approval from the U.S. Department of

*****or a federal district court for any change to state election laws. *****States covered by section 5 must show that the change does not

*****the right to vote of racial, ethnic, or language minorities, before

*****new law can take effect. ***** *****Questions about the information contained in this News Alert may be *****directed to TerriAnn Lowenthal at 202/484-2270 or, by e-mail at *****terriann2k(a)aol.com. For copies of previous News Alerts and other *****information, use our web site www.census2000.org *****<http://www.census2000.org>. Please direct all requests to *****receive News *****Alerts, and all changes in address/phone/fax/e-mail, to the Census

*****Initiative at Census2000(a)ccmc.org or 202/326-8700. Please feel free

*****circulate this information to colleagues and other interested *****individuals. *****