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Census 2000 Assessment The report entitled "The Census 2000: Interim Assessment" has been completed by the Panel to Review the 2000 Census of the Committee on National Statistics. The report is now available at the Web site http://www.nap.edu/books/0309076498/html/.Census 2000 Full Cycle Cost The report entitled "Census 2000: Significant Increase in Cost Per Housing Unit Compared to 1990 Census" has been completed by the U.S. General Accounting Office. The report is now available at the Web site http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0231.pdf. The report summary concludes: "The estimated full-cycle cost of the 2000 decennial census of about $6.5 billion is nearly double the $3.3 billion reported full-cycle cost of the 1990 decennial census. When full-cycle cost is divided by the number of American households, the cost per housing unit of the 2000 census was $56 compared to $32 per housing unit for the 1990 census." |
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