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Corinth's 2000 census resul t was 14,054, and
Mayor Jerry Latch has previously said he believes
the city's population is now more than 15,000.
communities across the country a nd determine each
state's nunlber of representatives in the U.S. House
of Representatives_

spread the word The streamlined 10-question form is designed to

boost participation. The Census Bureau is consider­
ing allowing Internet response in the future_
Census workers will not begin going door to door
until April, and no communications will be made by
e-mail to obtain or verifY information _ number of
fal~f' eo
-mails are circu lating lIlder the name of the

aboul cens s The census results will determine how more than
$400 billion in federal monies will be distributed to
Census Bu reau, acco rding to the Better Business
Bureau of Mississippi_

By Jebb Johnston
Staff Writer

Corinth's Complete Count Committee for Cen­

sus 2010 will begin a promotional push Monday [,0
spread the wOl'd about the importance of the upcom­
ing head count.
Members of the committee will be at Walmart
on Monday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. to distribute
information about the census. A recruIter tor ~
emplov.ment is also expected t.o he on haml to an·
swer questions about ceDSUS job .
T he committee's role in the census is promotional ,
and chairman Kim Ratliff of the city's ommunity
Development an d Planning Department said they
want to make sure the message of the importance of
the census reaches all segments of the population.
"We are particularly hard pressed to get informa­
tion to the Hispanic population," he said. .. 'nsuring
that we have vital services available to them is go­
ing to be very much dependent on t heir participa­
tion in the census."
Census fo rms will be arriving in nUlilboxes around
mid-March.
Participation in retu rn ing census questionnaires
trailed the national level in both Mississippi and on
the local level during the 2000 census. According to
the Census Bureau, national participation by mail
in 2000 was 72 percent. Mississippi's participation
by mail was 66 percent, and t he number in Corinth
and Alcorn County was even lower at 62 percent.

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