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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:23:09 -0500
Reply-To:     cooper%robin.DecNet@EUNICE.SSC.WISC.EDU
From:         cooper%robin.DecNet@EUNICE.SSC.WISC.EDU
Subject:      Census Bureau Budget CUTS .. important to COMPLAIN
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I've just received this on a local CDE list.  It is important to protest
these cuts now. (I am sending to IASSIST@PUCC, SOS-DATA@UNCVM1, and
GOVDOC-L@KENTVM.  Please forward other appropriate places; I apologize
for double (or triple) hits for some of you.)
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Anne Lightfoot Cooper   608-262-2182
University of Wisconsin Center for Demography
COOPER@WISCSSC       COOPER@SSC.WISC.EDU
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Subj:   Message from Paul Voss re:  Census budget
A 12 to 18 percent reduction to the Census Bureau's 1993 budget has been
proposed by Congress.

The effect of this cut could be the cancellation of all releases of long form
questionnaire data after the issuance of Summary Tape File 4, reductions to
surveys, continuing evaluations of the 1990 census, and the Census 2000
research program.

The specific data products that could be cancelled include:
-  Long form questionnaire data by Zip Code area.
-  County-to-County Migration files providing data on intra- and inter-
    state migration streams essential for transportation planning.
-  Map products planned for release in 1993.
-  Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) used by researchers, academicians
   and others to create special tabulation and anlyses of data not
   available through standard computer files.
-  All supplementary and subject reports/computer files.

Expressions of concern may be directed to the leadership of the Senate
(Hollings, Rudman) and House (Smith, Rogers) Appropriations Subcommittees
and members from your state.

To be effective, your correspondence must reach the members prior to
August 14. If you have any questions or comments please call me.
       Linda Gage
       Demographic Research Unit
       Department of Finance
       915 L Street
       Sacramento CA 95814
       (916) 322-4651

  -- SENATE --

Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC), CHAIRMAN
Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI)
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)
Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Jim Sasser (D-TN)
Brock Adams (D-WA)

Warren B. Rudman (R-NH) RANKING
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR)
Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-WI)
Phil Gramm (R-TX)

ADDRESS:

United States Senate
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
 for Commerce, Justice, State, the
 Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Room S-146A Capitol Building
Washington DC  20510

 -- HOUSE --

Neal Smith (D-LA) CHAIRMAN
Bill Alexander (D-AR)
Joseph D. Early (D-MA)
Bob Carr (D-MI)
Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Harold Rogers (R-KY) RANKING
Ralph Regula (R-OH)
Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)

ADDRESS:

United States House of Representatives
House Appopriations Subcommittee for
 Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary,
 and Related Agencies
Room H-309 Capitol Building
Washington DC  20515
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