Review of Federal Statistical Programs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics of ..., 91-1, April 30, May 1 and 15, 19691969 - 208 pages |
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... months there has been a great hue and cry about questions to be asked in the 1970 census . Members of Congress have received considerable mail protesting questions that will be asked in the census . Many of my own constituents have ...
... months there has been a great hue and cry about questions to be asked in the 1970 census . Members of Congress have received considerable mail protesting questions that will be asked in the census . Many of my own constituents have ...
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... months vacant , value , contract rent , trailer , bedrooms , automobile , air conditioning , television , radio , clothes dryer , washing machine , bathroom , dish- washer , and second home . " The complete list of questions contains ...
... months vacant , value , contract rent , trailer , bedrooms , automobile , air conditioning , television , radio , clothes dryer , washing machine , bathroom , dish- washer , and second home . " The complete list of questions contains ...
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... months go by before some minor detail is cleared up . All of this makes for work for the bureaucrats but it is discouraging to those who could do surveys for the government at substantial savings to taxpayers . Sincerely , GEORGE GALLUP ...
... months go by before some minor detail is cleared up . All of this makes for work for the bureaucrats but it is discouraging to those who could do surveys for the government at substantial savings to taxpayers . Sincerely , GEORGE GALLUP ...
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... month period along with a description of : ( a ) The purpose of the study ; ( b ) The design of the study ; ( c ) A report of the study . 2. Then I would suggest that this material be forwarded to 15 or 20 heads of marketing research ...
... month period along with a description of : ( a ) The purpose of the study ; ( b ) The design of the study ; ( c ) A report of the study . 2. Then I would suggest that this material be forwarded to 15 or 20 heads of marketing research ...
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... month for four consecutive months one year , and again for the same time period a year later . This technique permits us to obtain the needed information while minimizing the inconvenience to any one household . " Participation in the ...
... month for four consecutive months one year , and again for the same time period a year later . This technique permits us to obtain the needed information while minimizing the inconvenience to any one household . " Participation in the ...
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60 days 90th Congress A. C. Nielsen accurate agencies American answer areas asked August 16 basic bathroom believe bill Census Bureau census data Census of Population census questionnaire census questions Chairman TALMADGE cities citizens collected Committee compulsory concern confidentiality Congress Congressman Betts Congressman Jackson Consumer Price Index cooperation cost cost-of-living index count coverage D.C. DEAR days in jail decennial census Department ECKLER economic educational employment Federal statistical House of Representatives household housing quality important included income individual industry invasion of privacy JACKSON E KRAVIS Labor legislation marital status measure ment MOORE Office penalty percent planning population and housing Price Index problem programs proposed purpose rent Representative CONABLE Ross Eckler sample Senator statement Subcommittee subjects surveys tion United United States Code voluntary basis Washington Wholesale Price Index
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Page 12 - ... of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life. It is not the breaking of his doors and the rummaging of his drawers that constitutes the essence of the...
Page 14 - October 18 before the Subcommittee on Census and Statistics, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service of the House.
Page 7 - ... and, if it is agreeable to the committee, I would like to have...
Page 109 - Negro, there have been two significant trends in the shift of population since 1915, a constant movement from rural to urban areas and from the South to the North and West.
Page 74 - families of low income' means families (including elderly and displaced families) who are in the lowest income group and who cannot afford to pay enough to cause private enterprise in their locality or metropolitan area to build an adequate supply of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for their use.
Page 13 - ... (2) make any publication whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual under this title can be identified; or (3) permit anyone other than the sworn officers and employees of the Department or Bureau or agency thereof to examine the individual reports.
Page 12 - Act shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. No publication shall be made by the Census Office whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual can be identified, nor shall the Director of the Census permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Census Office to examine the individual reports.
Page 77 - Sadly, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Page 32 - HR 20: name, and address, relationship to head of household, sex, date of birth, marital status, and visitors in the home at the time of the census. Under the terms of HR, 20, 91st Congress, first session, and similar bills, "information required to be furnished" under possible criminal penalty includes only the questions listed above.
Page 15 - ... functions more efficiently, since any government agency operates more rationally when provided with adequate information. But clearly there are data that lie outside the pale of government concern and other matters that must be treated as confidential and with stringent safeguards of confidentially." Mr. Speaker, so often the eerie implications of George Orwell's "1984" come to mind. In January of this year author Vance Packard provided a current interpretation of his own to the impending dangers...