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The U. S. Census Bureau has a number of temporary jobs open during the next few weeks in Rappahannock County to help prepare address lists for use during the 1980 census.
Temporary census workers usually will work three to four weeks each and will be paid on a per-address collected basis. For an eighthour day, the average worker will earn $27 to $30 per day plus 17 cents-per-mile for any driving done in a private vehicle. Applicants for the jobs must be 18 years old or over, a U. S. citizen, and pass a written test.
The work involves driving or walking to compile lists of addresses of each dwelling unit in designated areas of the county. These address lists will play a vital role in taking the 1980 census. They will be used to produce mailing labels for the census questionnaires to be send to each household in America on March 28, 1980. Then, a few weeks following the April 1 Census Day, census officials will use the address lists to determine which households have not returned their completed questionnaires. Census takers must then be sent to each nonresponding household to' collect the infortnatioit required on the census form. ,
The 1979 address collection activity in the county is part of a Census Bureau program involving
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