Review of Federal Statistical Programs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics of the Joint Economic Committee, Ninety-first Congress, First Session. April 30, May 1, and 15, 1969

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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 7 - ... and, if it is agreeable to the committee, I would like to have...
Page 111 - 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 76 - 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 94 - Persons with a home elsewhere but who stay here most of the week while working 1 . What is the name of each person who was living here on Tuesday, April 1. 1980, or who was staying or visiting here and had no other home?
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 12 - Privacy" is a broad, abstract and ambiguous concept which can easily be shrunken in meaning but which can also, on the other hand, easily be interpreted as a constitutional ban against many things other than searches and seizures.
Page 79 - Sadly, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Page 46 - Is there a bathtub or shower in this house or building?" These are the choices for an answer: "Yes, for the use of this household only." "Yes, but shared with another household." "No bathtub or shower for the use of this household.

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