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2010 Census Deadline Messaging and Compressed Mailing Schedule Experiment

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2010 Census Deadline Messaging and Compressed Mailing Schedule Experiment

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2010 Census Planning Memo No. 166

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2010 Census Deadline Messaging and Compressed Mailing Schedule Experiment
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The purpose of the 2010 Census Deadline Messaging and Compressed Mailing Schedule Experiment was to determine if an increase in census mail response and speed of response could be realized (without decreasing data quality) by including a due date or deadline message on various mailing pieces and/or by sending the census mailing pieces closer to Census Day.

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