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The U.S. Census Bureau has begun its search for employees in this area to help with one of the nation’s mostimportant endeavors, the 1990 census ofpopulation and housing.
T^p first temporary jobs will involvedoor-to-door delivery of censusquestionnaires to area residents thiscoming March. The second major operation,April-June, will be followupvisitsmade necessary because some householdswill not mail back their census question-naires on or before the required April 1 deadline — Census Day.
Nearly a half-million Americans must answer their nation’s call for help before census operations conclude early next fall. The once-a-decade effort is the federal govemment’slargest peace-time operation. The first census was conductedin 1790 and it took just 650 people to count the nation’s 3.9 million residents. The Census Bureau estimates the 1990 count will stand at 250 million people and about 106 million housing units.
“Our biggest challenge will be hiring enough people when and where we need them,” said William F. Hill, Regional Director of the U.S. Census Bureau. “We need people from literally every community and neighborhood to help us.”
He added that census hiring has become more difficult over the last two decades for several reasons. For
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