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Topics:
Federal Funding | Immigration | Background | Miscellaneous Issues

 

Federal Funding:

Federal Assistance Programs Reliant in Whole or Part on Decennial Census Statistics to Distribute Funds, Fiscal Year 2008 (Update #3 - Feb. 16, 2010 - The Brookings Institution - Preliminary Data)

Federal Domestic Assistance [to states] Allocated on the Basis of Statistics Based on the Decennial Census (March 2009 - The Brookings Institution)

Federal Funds Distributed [to federal programs] on the Basis of Statistics Based on the Decennial Census (Feb. 2009 - The Brookings Institution)

 

Immigration:

Analysis of Whether Unauthorized Aliens Must be Included in the Census (Sept. 17, 2009 - Congressional Research Service)

Letter from Attorney General's Office of Legislative Affairs on “excluding illegal or deportable aliens” from the census (Sept. 22, 1989 - George H. W. Bush administration)

 

Background:

2010 Census: Quarterly Report to Congress (Feb. 2010 - U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General)

Census 2010 Hard-to-Count Map (Jan. 2010 - City University of New York's Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center)

Hard-to-Count Populations (April 2009 - The Census Project)

The 2010 Decennial Census: Background and Issues (April 27, 2009 - Congressional Research Service)

The American People: Politics and Science in Census Taking, by Kenneth Prewitt

Census 2010 Questionnaire (August 2009 - The Census Project)

Get Involved! A Guide for Stakeholders (Feb. 2009 - The Census Project)

Census Long Form vs. American Community Survey (Jan. 2010 - The Census Project)

 

Miscellaneous Issues:

Guidelines for Community Organizations Assisting People with Census Forms (March 2010 - Funders Census Initiative)

Census in Schools (Jan. 2010 - The Census Project)

Handheld Computers and Census 2010 (Aug. 2009 - The Census Project)

Postal Workers as Census Takers (Sept. 2009 - The Census Project)

The Decennial Census' Impact on the Department of Justice Voting Section (Jan. 2010 - The Census Project)