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...Section 3, of the Constitution provides for the enumeration once each ten years for all persons residing within the United States. This enumeration is explicitly and primarily designed to provide the basis for representation in the House of Representatives. In the years since the adoption of the Constitution, the Census enumeration and other statistical programs, such as those conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, have come to be the basis for a host of public activities, and most particularly provide the basis on which public funds are allocated in a whole range of government programs at the national, state...
...record of these agencies, notably the Bureau of the Census, in gathering and compiling this information with the highest technical competence, the uttermost standards of impartiality and integrity, and at the most modest cost is a matter of national pride. Typically it has been the Census Bureau itself that has been the most diligent in discovering and analyzing the problems of gathering statistics relating to minority groups...
...Bureau of the Census and other government statistical agencies have set a superb standard of public accountability in calling attention to this problem themselves. We feel it is incumbent on the Congress to provide the Bureau of the Census, the National Center of Health Statistics, the Bureal of Labor Statistics and such other agencies as are concerned, with the funds necessary to obtain a full enumeration of all groups in the population, and also to gather the usual information on special and economic characteristics that is necessary to implement the laws of the nation...
...Conference commends the Bureau of the Census for the innovative use of the Post Office for the purpose of insuring a more complete enumeration. The Conference believes that the Post Office will contribute to the improvement of the coverage of the census not only in general, but particularly, in the central cities...
...Conference wishes to encourage the Bureau of the Census to explore more flexible personnel procedures from the standpoint first, of enlarging the number of people who can be located to serve usefully as regular enumerators and, second, to employ people in various auxiliary roles to help insure completeness of count...