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US overseas Census
The US Census department is running an overseas Census www.census.gov/overseas04 This can be done on the web and they require "in order to access the 2004 Overseas Enumeration Test web site, your browser must meet the Census Bureau's security requirements. Before proceeding verify that your current browser's security settings are set to enable high security or high encryption, or; obtain a browser that meets the Census Bureau's security requirements at one of the sites below" Microsoft Internet Explorer High Encryption Pack AOL/Netscape High Encryption *** so the potential filer may have to import a software which which he/she might be reluctant to do in this era of worms and viruses. The next problem is the necessity of this census? Should Americans residing overseas be including in "US" census figures??? A broad spectrum of Americans live overseas. Some are doing so only for a short period, a year or two. Some are retired. Some are those who immigrated to the US but returned home for some reason. The US has a partial count already with 1) those who file US returns 2) those who collected social security benefits 3) those who register and vote by absentee ballots. Eventually, Homeland security will everntually monitor all departures and entrees of US citizen to and from the US. Earl |
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US overseas Census
"Earl Evleth" wrote
| The US Census department is running an overseas Census | www.census.gov/overseas04 | This can be done on the web and they require | "in order to access the 2004 Overseas Enumeration Test web site, | your browser must meet the Census Bureau's security requirements. | Before proceeding verify that your current browser's security | settings are set to enable high security or high encryption, or; | obtain a browser that meets the Census Bureau's security | requirements at one of the sites below" Somewhat ironic given the US government until very recently prohibited the export of web browsers that support strong encryption. Owain |
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:53:20 +0100, Earl Evleth
wrote: From other information from a private source, I am sure that US authorities is more and more interested in what oversea's Americans are doing overseas and are making inquiries to gather than information. In one area of surveillance of overseas Americans has been stepped up. We already know that travelers will, in a few months, be hit with fairly intrusive questions if they wish to travel to the USA (such as where one is staying, credit card numbers etc). If the US government wishes to spy on citizens, a census wouldn't be of much use. The restrictions on use of census data are such that it would be impossibile to figure out anything about a particular person. I used to use census data for research, and often the need to protect privacy over-rode even the needs of legitimate research. For instance, we once were doing social science research where income level was one of the things we wanted to correlate with our results. We were forced to use as our top income level an extremely broad category, because we also had some geographical indicators and the census bureau maintained that with a geographical indicator and a more specific income level, we might be able to guess who some of the respondents were and find out other things about them. The census bureau doesn't even encode identifying information, and their computer programs don't allow extracting information that would result in being able to distinguish a small group of people. This restriction applies also to their own employees. They might very well want to be able to make estimates about potential voters, potential taxpayers and potential future recipients of Social Security benefits. I had heard that one of the reasons they want to take a census of overseas citizens is that they were thinking of including them in the population of the states they last resided in for the sake of future voter redistricting. However, I doubt that it will ever take off. For one thing, I don't think this early experiment will be very successful. For another thing, overseas voters tend to be more to the left than the average voter, their last residence is more likely to be a major metropolitan area, and the current administration has no incentive to add population to these areas. ----------- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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