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Article: Census Bureau updating information on nation's veterans.
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- July 16, 2003
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M2 PRESSWIRE-16 July 2003-US CENSUS BUREAU: Census Bureau updating information on nation's veterans
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The nation had 24.3 million veterans as of 2001, of whom 1.6 million were women and 2.2 million had a service-connected disability. Have these numbers increased, decreased or stayed the same since then?
The Census Bureau's monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), which began in 1942 and is the largest and longest-running household survey in the country, will yield an answer to these and other questions about the nation's military veterans.
"The survey collects information on veterans status by a variety of ...