Census Workers to Update Address List at Dress Rehearsal Sites

The Census Bureau is entering the first major phase of the 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal after months of recruiting hundreds of people from the two dress rehearsal sites — San Joaquin County, Calif., and a nine-county area around Fayetteville, N.C.

Now through the end of June, more than 1,000 locally hired workers will update the Census Bureau’s address list — verifying, adding and correcting addresses.

To help ensure the accuracy of the census and improve efficiency, the Census Bureau has moved away from using traditional pencil and paper to update its address list and maps. Now, census workers will update the information electronically, using hand-held computers and coordinates from the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Residents can easily identify census workers by their official badges, hand-held computers and census bags.

News Release: Fayetteville Address Update | San Joaquin County Address Update | Podcast