Census Bureau Local Office Hosts Open House (and jobs)

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March 12, 2009

Census Bureau Local Office Hosts Open House

Tallahassee â€" On Tuesday, March 17, 2009, the Jacksonville Early Local Census Office (ELCO), located at 3225 University Blvd., Ste 107, Jacksonville will host an Open House from 5 to 7 p.m. to celebrate the opening of its new facility.

The opening of the local offices marks the official beginning of the 2010 Census in the Jacksonville area. Local elected officials, community and business leaders as well as local media outlets will be among the invited guests.

Following the formal program, attendees will receive a guided tour of the facility and demonstrations of the hand-held computers to be used in the upcoming Address Canvassing operation beginning in April. The hand-held computers are only one element of the new technology being employed in Census 2010. They are equipped with global positioning systems that will facilitate the validation of addresses of every household in the United States. The data captured in this operation will be vital when mailing or delivering questionnaires in the spring of 2010.

The Local Census Offices (LCOs) will have administrative staff of approximately 50 people and, when operating at peak capacity, will employ hundreds of people throughout the Jacksonville area to conduct the various field operations. Until additional offices open later this year, the Jacksonville office covers all of Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Hamilton, Suwannee, Lafayette, Dixie, Columbia, Gilchrist, Baker, Union, Bradford, Alachua, Nassau, Duval, Clay, Putnam, St. Johns, Flagler and Volusia counties.

The Jacksonville office is one of 150 Early Local Census Offices (ELCOs) that opened throughout the country in 2008/2009. The office has already tested thousands of applicants and will be scheduling further testing opportunities in the near future.

The U. S. Constitution requires a count of the population every 10 years. This effort will bring together a national work force of nearly 1.4 million temporary employees to count every resident. It employs some of the most sophisticated technical and operational tools and methods of data collection available and builds on the success of past censuses. Census results are used to determine congressional representation, redraw congressional lines, and to distribute $300-billion of federal funds annually.

For more information on the Census 2010 go to www.Census.gov

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I took this test months ago. Still waiting for a call...