What were some of the important milestone dates for conducting the census?
IMPORTANT MILESTONES START DATE FINISH DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION 3/6/00 3/31/00 Mail Delivery The mail delivery strategy included an advance letter, questionnaire mailout, and a reminder card for nonrespondents (the reminder card was sent to all on the mailing out list — as a thank you card to those that have responded and to those who have not yet responded). 3/3/00 3/30/00 Update/Leave This was conducted in areas with predominately non-city-style addresses. Census workers delivered the questionnaires to housing units and at the same time updated their list of addresses of the units in their assignment area. 1/31/00 5/1/00 List/Enumeration (Including Alaska) Enumerators visited each household in very remote or very sparsely populated areas (e.g. remote Alaska). Census maps were updated, interviews conducted, and each address/location was listed. 3/3/00 6/08/00 Telephone Questionnaire Assistance (TQA) A toll-free telephone service was provided by a commercial phone center to provide resp
