Excerpt from Status of Planning for the 2000 Census: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, January 26, 1994 Status of Year 2000 Decennial Census Planning efforts-section V describes the key activities and accomplishments to date, along with objectives for the planned 1995 census field tests. A summary of the fundamental changes being proposed for testing in 1995 is shown in Table 1 on the next page. Proposals for Legislative Changes Necessary to Address the Concerns of Congress Section VI describes those new ideas that may require legal changes and for which, as appropriate, legislative initiatives will be proposed. Progress Being Made to Promote Cooperative Efforts with the us. Postal Service (usps) Including Efforts to Simplify and Lower Costs of the Next Decennial census-section VII describes how joint census planning efforts with the usps were formally established in 1990, and how significant progress has been made on several fronts. Of particular note are efforts to share address and geographic information that will meet critical needs of both agencies, including the Census Bureau's effort to create and maintain a nationwide master address file. In addition to meeting the overarching objectives of reducing the differential undercount and census costs, the research and development program has also identified a number of ways to simplify the public's participation in the census. These include the use of a redesigned questionnaire that will be easier for people to complete; offering easier access to paper questionnaires and providing the opportunity to respond by telephone; and reducing the length of a typical questionnaire. More details about these efforts are discussed in appropriate sections of this report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.