Absolutely. The Census Bureau does not share its information about individuals with anyone, not even other government agencies. Not the IRS. Not the INS. Not the police. No one. No. Five out of six households will get the "short form." This asks just eight questions: name, sex, age, race, relationship, Hispanic origin, whether you rent or own your home and how many people live in the household. A randomly selected one in six households will be asked to complete the "long form.

The 1970 decennial census was the first to have a question on Hispanic origin on the sample or "long" census form. Since 1980, this question has appeared on the 100 percent or "short" form. Hispanic origin data are needed for the implementation of a number of federal statutes such as the enforcement of bilingual election rules under the Voting Rights Act and the monitoring and enforcement of equal employment opportunities under the Civil Rights Act.

The decennial census is well known because it is a national event that involves everyone. However, the Census Bureau conducts numerous other censuses and surveys for government, private entities, and individuals as well as tabulating the decennial data and publishing the tables and data.

The Census 2000 Partnership and Marketing Program was a multi-faceted effort to remind the general population about the census, educate those members of the public who do not understand the purpose of the census and its significance to their communities, and motivate them to complete their census questionnaires. The Census Bureau recognizes that different segments of the population respond in different ways and with different levels of trust and willingness to participate in the census.

operation called Service-Based Enumeration (SBE) is designed to provide people without "usual residence," who might not be included through other enumeration methods, an opportunity to be enumerated. Additionally, people without a "usual residence" will be able to pick up Be Counted questionnaires at selected non-SBE service locations, such as travelers' aid centers and health care clinics.

We will begin delivery of these data in March 2001 and we will complete delivery to the governor and majority and minority legislative leaders in each state by April 1, 2001. We will do all that is possible to consider each state’s redistricting deadlines as we plan the sequence of our data processing. Already we have confirmed with each state legislature any deadlines the state faces.

Yes. All of the information that the U.S. Census Bureau collects under Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 9 is confidential. Person or household data protected by this law are kept confidential for 72 years; business data remain confidential for 30 years. After that time, the information may be made available to the public.

The Census Bureau takes its commitment to confidentiality very seriously. It constantly pursues new procedures, technologies, and methodologies to safeguard individual data. Every person with access to person or business data - from the director on down - is sworn by Title 13 to protect confidentiality and is subject to criminal penalties if they do not. Tight computer security and strict access and handling procedures are followed.

Yes. The UCR Program uses population figures from the Bureau of the Census. However, the UCR Program adjusts population figures for individual jurisdictions in noncensus years. More information on how the national UCR Program determines population is available in Appendix I, "Methodology," of [Crime in the United States, 2003]. (Please link to www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#cius). Yes. The U.S.

The complete sample for the survey cannot be selected until all tax records for 1997 are available. Use of these tax records delays the mailout of the survey, but allows us to reduce significantly the number of survey questions and the survey cost.

ZCTAs are generalized approximations of USPS five-digit ZIP Codes. There are no plans to create subdivisions of five-digit ZCTAs that approximate the USPS ZIP+4 sector-segment codes.

The Census form indicated that Census information may be used to select respondents for some Statistics Canada surveys. The Aboriginal Children’s Survey is one of these surveys. Using names from the Census enables us to identify respondents who might otherwise be difficult to locate. By doing this, the costs involved are greatly reduced.

Yes, it is confidential. Information about SAMHSA's NCADI users/visitors is not sold, shared, or utilized in any commercial way. We do not collect any personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide that information to us. Please refer to our Privacy Policy.

For Census 2000, the Census Bureau will produce only one category showing the number of persons tabulated at "Emergency and transitional shelters." People enumerated at shelters for abused women (shelters against domestic violence or family crisis centers), soup kitchens, regularly scheduled mobile food vans, and targeted nonsheltered outdoor locations will be tabulated into the category "Other noninstitutional group quarters population.

Those households who received the census form in the mail had the option of requesting the questionnaire in Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean. Those individuals or households who believed that they were not included on a form or did not receive a form can use the Be Counted questionnaires that were available in public areas. The Be Counted forms were printed in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean.

Answer: Census Bureau complies with the Office of Management and Budget's standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race, which were revised in October 1997. They generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country. They do not conform to any biological, anthropological or genetic criteria.

The downloadable ZCTA gazetteer files contain the total land and water area (in square kilometers and in square miles) for each Census 2000 ZCTA. You can also extract this information for three- or five-digit ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the Advance National Summary File 1 geographic header file. The geographic header file is the last file in the list (usgeo_u1.zip).

By federal law, the U.S. Census Bureau cannot share your responses with others, including welfare agencies, immigration authorities, Internal Revenue Service, courts, police and other law entities. The U.S. Census Bureau has a long-standing position, without exception, to hold each person’s answers confidential.

It is against the law to publish or disclose any data that identifies an individual or company ? no names, no addresses, no Social Security numbers. Violating the law is a federal crime with serious penalties, including a prison sentence of up to five years and a $250,000 fine.

On January 25, 1999, the Supreme Court upheld 195, Title 13, United States Code, prohibiting the Census Bureau from using statistical sampling to determine the population count for congressional apportionment purposes (No. 98-564, Clinton, President of the United States, et al. v. Glavin et al., on appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia).

You may submit your data electronically using the MA-1000 CSAQ software via the Internet or diskette or you may transmit via modem.

Since approximately 5 million companies are mailed forms, we cannot send someone to personally help every business. However, business are not expected to incur extra expenses to develop information not available from records. If book figures are not available, ESTIMATES are acceptable. If the instructions provided with the forms, or the information on this web site do not answer your concerns, a Census Bureau analyst can call you. Please go to the contact us page and call or email us.

These business owner characteristics are important for assistance program officials, industry organizations, economic and social analysts, and entrepreneurs. They are important to understanding conditions of business success and failure, showing census-to-census changes in business performances, and comparing minority/nonminority- and women/men-owned businesses.

Some information is available from the Secretary of State's office, Elections Division, at (785) 296-4561. More complete information is available at the U.S. Bureau of the Census Internet Web site at www.census.gov.

All information in your alcohol and drug treatment records is confidential and is protected by federal and state laws. The Managed Care System can share information about you with another person only if you give your written permission. There are some exceptions to your right to confidentiality. Those exceptions are related to child abuse, elder abuse, and harm to self or others.

Yes. All customer information is kept secure and confidential. We do not sell or trade or provide access to your information to any party. Your privacy is our utmost concern. How good is your guarantee? You won't find a better guarantee than ours. We get E-mails every day from people who claim it has changed their life! Almost everyone orders more once they see how well it works.

Yes, all information collected will be kept confidential including facility, provider and patient names. Facility, provider and patient names are not sent to CDC and will not be used in any reports.