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CENSUS 2000 OPERATIONAL PLAN
USING TRADITIONAL CENSUS-TAKING METHODS
Objectives
The goal of every census is to be the best census ever.
So it is with Census 2000. The Census 2000 operational plan
contains strategies to improve the completeness of the census
that were identified using the following objectives:
- Make unprecedented efforts to count every household and
person--from simpler, user-friendly forms to the better
design of census operations
- Maintain an open process that diverse groups and
interests can understand and support
- Minimize the differential undercount of racial and
ethnic groups
- Minimize the overall net undercount
- Avoid erroneous enumerations to the greatest extent
possible
- Achieve maximum accuracy in the most cost-effective way
possible
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