ng trained, we pay them. We pay them for mileage, because we ask them to use their own cars. We pay them for that. And we obviously give them the materials; the training manuals, the forms, the pencils. It’s an amazing – we have a facility in Indiana, Jeffersonville, Indiana, our national processing center. And they have this amazing facility they built to assemble these kits that go to the enumerators. You know, it’s like an assembly line. This box rolls down, you put in two pencils, you put in a pencil sharpener, you put in a box of paperclips, you put in this and that, and at the end it’s packaged up and it’s put aside and then shipped out to all of these 494 local census offices who then ship them out to the trainings. We will have about 40,000 training sites that are open on April – what is it – 26th
, I think. We’ll have 40,000 training sites around the country with training going on. QUESTION:
Dagmar Benesova. You mentioned also the jobs. It’s creating new jobs. Do you have some survey or estimate how many new jobs will be created this year for April 1st
– MR. WEINBERG:
There was a study by the Commerce Department, and I’m sure that Miriam that can get ahold of it – it’s on the website – that estimated that we might reduce unemployment by as much as half a percentage point during that period. But there was a very careful study done, and you can take a look at it. That’s just my recollection.QUESTION:
And just – thank you. And just for verification, as far as 13-year period, there will be 14.5 billion dollars, like, the budget? And this year it will be spending 7.5 billion dollars.MR. WEINBERG:
Approximately, yes. That’s right. Of that 14 and a half billion for the 13-year period, we’re spending 7 and a half billion this year alone.QUESTION:
Okay. Thank you very much.QUESTION:
Jane Morse. And that’s to count 309 million people.MR. WEINBERG:
Right. Well, it’s actually a little more than that. Because the 309 million is our estimate for just the U.S. and we have to add in Puerto Rico and all the island areas. And they’re in the budget, but they’re a relatively small proportion.QUESTION:
Emmanuelle Richard. And what is the estimated people who don’t have a mailing address, people who are nomads, who are – you know, who keep moving in trailers or who are hard to reach –MR. WEINBERG:
Well, we don’t – we have a separate – an operation called Enumeration at Transitory Locations. It’s a fancy name, but it’s people who live in trailer parks – I mean, campgrounds. It’s people who live in marinas. It’s people who live – who work in circuses and carnivals, that travel around the country. We have a separate operation for them that just started this week, actually, to go to those people. We’ve identified those places. We will go there and try to – and enumerate them in person. I don’t have an estimate for you. We’ll know that after. But –QUESTION:
It’s very small (inaudible) migrant workers who keep moving from –MR. WEINBERG:
No. They’re – well, no, no. They’re included, because we know – those are physical locations we will visit. It’s the people that move around. I know – I think it’s, like, 20,000 locations, transitory locations we’re visiting, something like that number. So it’s a substantial effort over a fairly short period of time.
Dagmar Benesova. If I can ask maybe the last question. You mentioned that it lowered the unemployment by 0.5 percent.MR. WEINBERG:
I’d rather – QUESTION:
Would it be temporary just – so it’s for April unemployment rate or for the whole year?MR. WEINBERG:
No. No. It’s – don’t quote that number until you read the source, because I’m just – it was my recollection. But basically these people will start work the last week in April, and they’ll work for perhaps six to eight weeks, through May and June and then maybe some of them into July. So you won’t see it in the April unemployment rate that’s reported at the beginning of May. You should see some effect in the May unemployment rate that’s reported in the beginning of June. Because the way the unemployment rate survey is done is we ask people, “Wer