Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has named 20 organizations to the 2010 Census Advisory Committee, which will advise the U.S. Census Bureau on topics ranging from data usage to technology for the 2010 Census. The advisory committee is meeting at the Census Bureau headquarters in Suitland, Md., today and tomorrow.

     “We welcome the partnership with the 2010 Census Advisory Committee as we pass the mid-decade point and pick up the pace on technical research, planning and testing for a completely redesigned census using new tools and technology to count our nation’s people and households,” said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon.

     The advisory committee includes data users, general governmental entities, technology-based organizations and entities with expertise in the statutory and constitutional uses of decennial census data:

2010 Census Advisory Committee Members

• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
• American Farm Bureau Federation
• American Foundation for the Blind
• Asian American Justice Center (formerly the National Asian Pacific American
  Legal Consortium)
• Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans
• Association of Public Data Users
• California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
• Consortium of Social Science Associations
• Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
• Election Data Services, Inc.
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Housing Statistics Users Group
• National Association of Counties
• National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund
• National Association of Towns and Townships
• National Conference of Black Mayors, Inc.
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Congress of American Indians
• POLIDATA Political Data Analysis
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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