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summarizing their own population and housing unit estimates so that they can be compared with the Census Bureau’s counts. Most local governments will receive these counts this month.
Among the types of evidence local officials are expected to use to support their estimates are:
—Residential Building and demolition permits,
— Residential Utility (electricity, telephone, water) connections,
—Aerial photos, field surveys, and land-use maps, and
—Tax assessor records.
The local governments will have an average of four weeks to get ready for the view and two weeks to comment on the Bureau’s counts. The temporary census offices will remain open up to six weeks in order to complete the checking of these local comments.
Local officials are vitally concerned with the accuracy of the census of their communities for several reasons:
— Congressional apportionment is based on the census under the Constitution (Article 1, Section 2).
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