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## William G. Bostic, Jr.

**William G. Bostic, Jr.,** joined the U.S. Census Bureau in 1976 and has been the agency's Associate Director for Economic Programs since August 2010.  He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Census Bureau’s Economic Programs Directorate. The directorate conducts more than 100 monthly, quarterly, and annual surveys covering various sectors of the economy, including 13 economic indicators and an economic census and census of governments every 5 years in years ending in 2 and 7.Interview conducted on February 5, 2016.  [272KB PDF]
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