WEINBERG:
Yeah, but why not use – if it’s just a picture of somebody knocking on a door you want, the Census Bureau will give you b-roll and somebody knocking –QUESTION:
(Inaudible) and then as the agents say, “Well, I’ve been turned today by this number people,” or, “It’s been difficult,” or, “I go around” – because we want to show the scale – MR. WEINBERG:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, all I can suggest is work with our public information office and see what they – I mean we want publicity. Of course, we want publicity. QUESTION:
You know, 300 million people. How do you count them? It’s – MR. WEINBERG:
Exactly, so – QUESTION:
Well, who do you recommend that – in your office who we – MR. WEINBERG:
Well, Stephen --QUESTION:
-- (inaudible) TV –MR. WEINBERG:
Stephen Buckner is the name I would contact.QUESTION:
New York, go ahead.QUESTION:
Hello. I’m Gabriel Plesea, for Romanian media. I have two questions. One, you said there is an exception, ambassador. Isn’t this – just the ambassador or the diplomatic mission staff? And also, you don’t have the international organizations. I’m referring to the United Nations. What about those? You do have national (inaudible) the counters. And the (inaudible) that the census refers to the residents. You do not go by citizenship or whatever. But what about those?
The other question is – MR. WEINBERG:
Let me do one. Let me answer that one. We’ll come – yeah. It’s – basically, it’s diplomatic, I suppose, because you – the people who live in the foreign soil within the United States, the Embassy compound. I don’t think it’s just the ambassadors. But we do want foreign nationals who live on U.S. soil to fill out the census. It’s – they live – if they live here most of the time. I mean some countries are different. I know in Ireland, it’s if you’re there that night, whether you – you know, you may be passing through. You’re there one night, they want to count you that one census night. But here, if you usually live or stay, we want you to count. If you’re a foreign tourist, you come in for 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:
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