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Census Says Impasse Over Funds Threatens Survey
By D'Vera Cohn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 13, 2004; Page A02
The Census Bureau will have to abandon years of work it has conducted on a household survey that is intended to replace the long form in the 2010 census unless Congress acts soon to provide adequate funding for the project, the agency's director said yesterday.
The American Community Survey is designed to offer neighborhood-level numbers every year, in contrast to the once-a-decade portrait from the census.
The Bush administration's budget requested $165 million for the survey this fiscal year. The House appropriations bill that funds the Commerce, Justice and State departments provided $146 million. A bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee gave it $65 million.
