Various Pretesting Activities

ACS-613R(L)(ENGLISH)
June 2008

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. Census Bureau
Regional Office
Boston, MA 02117-9108

Dear Resident:
Recently, a U.S. Census Bureau representative visited your household on behalf of the
American Community Survey. The Census Bureau is conducting this survey under the
authority of Title 13, Sections 141, 193, and 221, of the United States Code, and response to
this survey is required by law. I understand that you have some concerns about participating
in this survey, but your household's participation is important to the success of this survey.
The American Community Survey contains questions about your household characteristics
including such topics as education, employment, and housing. The primary goal of this survey
is to provide information each year about the social, economic, and housing characteristics of
the United States. Your participation helps provide the information needed by your community,
county, state, and nation, to plan and fund programs at all levels. The American Community
Survey will provide communities annually updated, detailed information previously available
only when the Census Bureau conducted a census every 10 years.
We want to emphasize that any information you give our representative will be kept
confidential. By law, the Census Bureau cannot publish or release to anyone any information
that would identify you or your household (Tile 13, Section 9). The information you provide can
be used only for statistical purposes.
A member of our staff will contact you again in a few days to arrange an interview at your
convenience. Your participation and cooperation are important to the success of the survey.
For more information about the American Community Survey, visit our website at
http://www.census.gov/acs.

Sincerely,

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