 a week, you see New York, you go to Washington for a week, we don’t – you’re not considered a usual resident. So go ahead with your other question. QUESTION:
Yeah. The second – you answered that already. It referred to nationalities, like, you know, like Romanian, Czech, Bulgarians, and what have you. You answered that. Who is – you know, you have this (inaudible). They have these numbered by religion, like Catholics, you know, Jewish, Hindus, or what have you. Is that also done by the American Community Survey? And also there are data about financial, you know, groups, U.S. population grouped by financial (inaudible) and so on and forth.
And the last one is – refers to U.S. born versus naturalized (inaudible). So you know you find those (inaudible) various locations. Is that also (inaudible) somewhere a function of the U.S. Census Bureau, or there are some other organizations that would do that?MR. WEINBERG:
Let me answer the religion question first. The Census Bureau is prohibited by law from asking questions about somebody’s religious affiliation. There’s actually a Congressional law. So we – the religion data that we publish in our Statistical Abstract are from other sources. The – you know, the Church World Council or wherever – you know, the individual churches might report their membership to some organizations and we might assemble it. But we don’t collect it.
The other information you asked about, the financial – the income of individuals or whether they were native-born or not, yes, those come from the American Community Survey. And they’re tabulated, and we have this – it’s called American Fact Finder on the census website where you can actually get these data at the national level, the state level, city level, and eventually, at the end of 2010, we’ll be publishing those statistics at the census track level which are – average about 4,000 people.QUESTION:
Thank you.MR. WEINBERG:
Any other questions, New York?QUESTION:
Hi. Thank you very much. I’m Hideo Miyawaki from Kyodo News Agency. You may already have explained to us, but (inaudible) concern. What was the earliest Congressional election to be conducted based on this 2010 census?MR. WEINBERG:
That would be the – QUESTION:
That would be the 2012 election.QUESTION:
And my related question is whether the results of the census will affect the (inaudible) election in the future?MR. WEINBERG:
Definitely it would affect Presidential election in the future, also the 2012 election. The Electoral College, which is the number of votes that determine the President is based on a state level. So if – for example, let’s use California. California, I think, voted for President Obama rather than Senator McCain in the last election. If they got two more seats, they would get two more votes in the electoral college. So there’s a direct relationship between the number of representatives and the vote in the electoral college. So it would definitely affect the voting in 2012 as well. Sure.QUESTION:
Can you give us any sense about how the U.S. census compares to censuses done over – in other countries around the world?MR. WEINBERG:
That’s an unfair question. Of course, ours is the best. What do you want me to say? (Laughter.) No, I will – that’s a facetious remark, but we do have a lot of interchange with other countries. And there are similarities. There are differences. Specifics, Canada does a census – the Canadian census is every five years. They’ll be doing their next one in 2011. And they have had, for many years, an initiative to get broadband connections out as much as they can in the country. So they are focusing very heavily on the internet in 2011 to collect their data. And we – matter of fact, I mentioned how important that was to us. We’ll be going to work with them to learn from the Canadians about the internet.
In many countries, they use a long form only and not a short form. So they’ll – I think England and Wales, for example, they’ll use 100 percent long form. Not every country has a regular collection. They differ. I mean, you can’t – let’s take a country – u