And, if you are a teacher, check out all the free teaching materials you can obtain by clicking on Census in the Schools. Regular visitors to the website will notice that each month there is a featured fact, usually centered around a holiday. These facts are compiled by the Census Bureau and contain an amazing amount of interesting data. This month's feature is the Holiday Season. The hours of the lead agency, located in the Nevada State Library and Archives, Carson City, are 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday, but several of the network affiliates are located in public and university libraries which have evening and weekend hours.
Children can be the center of our world.
They are the object of hundreds of photographs, the subject of cost conversations and the recipients of a major share of the family's resources, demanding everything from diapers to doctors' visits. But the truth is that many of us do forget our children when we're filling out our census forms. The goal of Census 2000, just like previous censuses, is 100-percent participation by every man, woman and child living in the United States. The 1990 census missed about 4 million people. As many as half of these missing persons were under the age of 18 and many of these children were under the age of 10.