Census 2000 Education Kit
Census 2000 Table of Contents
Background
- An Overview
- The Affect of an Undercount on Local Communities
- Children
- Workers And Their Families
- Education
- People of Color
- Individuals With Disabilities
- Senior Citizens
- Rural Areas
- Business
Census Bureau's Plan
- The Census Bureau's Plan For Census 2000
- Legal Challenges To Sampling
- How Do We Know There Is An Undercount?
- The Difference Between Redistricting and Reapportionment
- What The Experts Say
- What The Newspapers Say
- Frequently Asked Questions
- The Importance Of The Ancestry Question
- Achieving Accuracy In The 2000 Census
Census History
Census 2000 In Your Community
Individuals With Disabilities
Accuracy is Critical in 2000
Just like other people, individuals with disabilities will lose out if there is an inaccurate Census count in 2000. Census data are the basis for virtually all demographic information used by educators, policy makers, and community leaders and directly affect funding for many programs critical to individuals with disabilities including programs for health care, transportation, employment training, and housing. Federal, state, and county governments use Census information to guide the annual distribution o f $180 billion dollars in critical services.
A Number of Programs Critical for Individuals with Disabilities Rely on Accurate Census Information Census information is:
- Used by state and county agencies to plan for eligible recipients under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income programs;
- Used to distribute funds and develop programs for people with disabilities and the elderly under the Rehabilitation Act;
- Required under the Housing and Urban Development Act to distribute funds for housing for people with disabilities;
- Used to allocate funds to states and local areas for employment and job training programs for veterans under the Job Training Partnership Act, Disabled Veterans Outreach Program;
- Needed under the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure that comparable public transportation services are available for all segments of the population;
- Required to award Federal grants, under the Older Americans Act, based on the number of elderly people with physical and mental disabilities;
- Used to allocate funds for mass transit systems to provide facilities for disabled persons under the Federal Transit Act;
- Used under the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program for a collection of job development services for disabled veterans including counseling, job training and placement services.
- Used under the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program to provide housing assistance and supportive services for low-income persons with HIV/AIDS and their families; and,
- Needed for Special Education Preschool Grants that make available special education for children ages 3 through 5.
