[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 54666]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-26433]
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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 206 / Wednesday, October 25, 1995 /
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
Joint Meeting of Members of the Census Advisory Committees (CAC)
on the African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian and
Pacific Islander, and Hispanic Populations; Notice of Public
Teleconference Call Meeting
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L. 92-463 as
amended by P.L. 94-409), we are giving notice of a teleconference call
of the joint meeting of the members of the CACs on the African
American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific
Islander, and Hispanic Populations. It will include the chairperson of
each committee or a designee, the members of the working group advisory
committee, and all committee members who wish to participate in the
call. The teleconference call meeting is also open to the public. The
conference call meeting will convene on November 6, 1995 at the Census
Bureau, Federal Building 3, Suitland, Maryland 20233.
The committees are composed of nine members each appointed by the
Secretary of Commerce. They provide an organized and continuing channel
of communication between the communities they represent and the Bureau
of the Census on its efforts to reduce the differential in the count
for the 2000 census and on ways that census data can be disseminated to
increase/improve the data's usefulness to their communities and other
users.
The committees will draw on past experience with the 1990 census
process and procedures, results of evaluations and research studies,
and the expertise and insight of their members to provide advice and
recommendations during the research and development phase on various
topics and provide advice and recommendations during the design,
planning, and implementation phases of the 2000 census.
The agenda for the teleconference call meeting that will begin at 1
p.m. Eastern standard time and end at 4 p.m. is:
(1) Introductory remarks.
(2) Continued discussions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on
the Supplement on Race and Ethnicity.
(3) Summary of Discussions on Issues from the Race and Ethnic
Targeted Test (RAETT) Working Group Meeting of September 25; Points
of Agreement and Further Considerations:
a. Multiracial Classification (testing both the multiracial
category and the mark more than one approach).
b. Combined Race, Hispanic Origin and Ancestry Question.
c. Alternative sequencing of race and Hispanic Origin question.
d. Terminology.
e. Combined Indian (Amer.) or Alaska Native Category, Native
Hawaiian Category.
(4) Advice and/or recommendations on issues for RAETT.
(5) Summary of teleconference call meeting.
The teleconference call meeting is open to the public and a brief
period is set aside on November 6, 1995 for public comment and
questions. Those persons with extensive questions or statements must
submit them in writing to the Census Bureau official named below at
least three days before the meeting.
The conference call meeting is physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should also be directed to the Census Bureau official
named below.
Persons wishing additional information concerning the conference
call meeting or who wish to submit written statements may contact Ms.
Diana Harley, Decennial Management Division, Bureau of the Census, Room
3587, Federal Building 3, Suitland, Maryland. (Mailing address:
Washington, DC 20233). Telephone: (301) 457-4047.
Dated: October 19, 1995.
Harry A. Scarr,
Deputy Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 95-26433 Filed 10-24-95; 8:45 am]
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