Excerpt from Review the Status of Planning for the 2000 Census: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel of the Committee in Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, October 7, 1993 Mr. Chairman, I note that the ten-year cycle for the 1990 census ended one week ago today. In the old days, we would just now be starting the cycle for the next census. Instead, we have had a formal research and development process in place for almost three years, and actually began long-range planning five years ago. This approach to planning, involving an initial design phase, is itself a fundamental change from past censuses. This shift in strategy resulted from a common conclusion reached by the Census Bureau, the Department of Commerce, this Committee and others in Congress, the General Accounting Office, and the Office of Management and Budget (omb) that it was time for a fundamental review of both the core methods and overall scope of the decennial census. When the Task Force for Designing the Year 2000 Census and census-related Activities for 2000 - 2009 was announced in November 1990, the con cept of reinventing government was not widely known, and the recently complet ed National Performance Review was nearly three years away. Yet, in his September 7, 1993, letter to the President transmitting the results of that review, Vice President Gore's opening paragraph stated an overall goal to create a government that works better and costs less. Our Task Force has had a parallel goal of making fundamental reforms in the decennial census. The Vice President also described how ideas and advice were solicited from all across America to gain both the insights and the involvement of all those with a stake in the outcome. This too parallels our Task Force commitment to an open process - open to all ideas and to all stakeholders in the census design. The Task Force and the National Performance Review are alike in other ways. 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.