FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                      MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2002


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                   **CENSUS BUREAU MEDIA ADVISORY**

     Census Bureau Director to Brief Media on Release of Major Survey

   What:  Census Bureau Director C. Louis Kincannon will brief reporters 
          on the release of 2001 Supplementary Survey data on the United 
          States, Texas and five areas in Texas with populations of 1 
          million or more.  The data include changes in travel time to 
          work, household income, child poverty and home values. This 
          survey is a forerunner of the nationwide American Community 
          Survey, which will replace the census long form by 2010.

   When:  Thursday, Nov. 7, 2002, at 10 a.m.

   Who:   C. Louis Kincannon, director of the U.S. Census Bureau 
          Steve Murdock, Texas state demographer, Texas A&M University

   Where: Texas State Capitol
          1400 North Congress Ave., Room 2W.6  
          (Second floor, West Wing, Room 6)
          Austin

   For more information about this event, contact the Census Bureau's
Public Information Office, Decennial Media Relations Section, on 
(301) 763-3692.