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...despite the official estimate of the Census Bureau that only 8.3 per cent of the adult population is functionally illiterate, the U.S. Office of Education agrees with Harmen's estimate...
High Stakes. The Government considers the $210 million being spent on the census a solid investment in turning up statistics that will, among other things, help the nation decide...
That is not to say that the 1970 census was without its quirks. An unemployed husband in Philadelphia was told that his working wife must be listed as "head of household" and that he should list himself on the line "wife of head." One of the special enumerators who made house calls, Mrs. Rose Levine, 52, was asked to check residents of a nudist colony at El Cajon, Calif. She kept her clothes on and also managed "to look directly at them and see their personalities," rather than their bodies. Many respondents wondered why the Government asked for their telephone...
...allocate funds for such varied governmental programs as highways, schools, hospitals and urban renewal. By noting population shifts, housing conditions and the relationship between where people live and where they work, the census helps local governments, too, make long-range plans. On the federal level alone the distribution of about $5 billion a year in subsidies depends on census facts...
...countless private agencies and business firms can best reach their potential clients and customers. The census provides invaluable information for market analysts. Commercial firms will be able to secure computer tapes of this year's census results-though the names of individuals and the information linked to them are protected by law from disclosure...