Article: Assurances from the Census Bureau


Caribbean Today
04-30-2000
Assurances from the Census Bureau

As soon as you receive your Census 2000 questionnaire in the mail, a
horrible thought might immediately cross your mind: "Is the whole world
going to be able to see my answers?"

You can put that fear to rest right now. Federal law (Title 13, United
States Code) mandates that no one outside the Census Bureau can ever be
given any information that would enable them to connect your answers with
your name and address.

It also says that before anyone inside the Census Bureau sees your
completed questionnaire, they must first be sworn to secrecy. And if they
were to violate this oath? They would have the long arm of the law to
contend with: a ...

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