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Census Bureau Director to Meet with Local Governments and Organizations on Census 2000 Partnerships

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWS

Economic & Statistics Administration


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1998


Census 2000 Publicity Office CB98-C.01
301-457-2000/301-457-2992 (fax)
301-457-4067 (TDD)

John Reeder/Los Angeles Regional Office
818/904-6393

**CENSUS BUREAU MEDIA ADVISORY**

Census Bureau Director to Meet with Local Governments
and Organizations on Census 2000 Partnerships

Los Angeles, Calif. Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of the
Commerce Department's Census Bureau, along with four area Members of
Congress from California, will meet January 21 with local government and
nongovernmental organizations to discuss ways to make Census 2000 simpler,
less costly and more accurate.

Riche will discuss ways that governmental, educational and religious
organizations, foundations, trade unions and community action and advocacy
groups can participate in Census 2000. The meetings are being sponsored
by Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Xavier Becerra, Esteban Torres and Matthew
Martinez, all of California.

Topics to be discussed include: making local residents aware of
Census 2000; recruiting local temporary workers; forming local
answer-the-census committees; promoting the census with residents to
encourage prompt mailback of the questionnaire; and disseminating data
summaries after the census.

10:00-10:30 a.m. Press Briefing
Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund (MALDEF)
634 South Spring Street, 1st Floor
Los Angeles, CA. 90014
PH: 213/629-2512


10:30-12:00 p.m. Town Hall Meeting
1st Floor Conference Room

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The Census Bureau pre-eminent collector and provider of timely, relevant
and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. In
more than 100 surveys annually and 20 censuses a decade, evolving from the
first census in 1790, the Census Bureau provides official information
about America's people, businesses, industries and institutions.

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