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First, the 2010 census will be a "Short-Form Only Census". "For the first time since 1930, there will be no "long form." The lengthier survey previously has gone to one in every six households and asked about everything from property taxes and indoor plumbing to education, ancestry and commuting patterns."<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2007-04-29-census_N.htm</ref> "Every household in 2010 will get a shorter Census form, as required by the Constitution. This "short form" asks all members of every household their gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship to the head of household and whether the home is owned or rented."<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2007-04-29-census_N.htm</ref>
First, the 2010 census will be a "Short-Form Only Census". "For the first time since 1930, there will be no "long form." The lengthier survey previously has gone to one in every six households and asked about everything from property taxes and indoor plumbing to education, ancestry and commuting patterns."<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2007-04-29-census_N.htm</ref> "Every household in 2010 will get a shorter Census form, as required by the Constitution. This "short form" asks all members of every household their gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship to the head of household and whether the home is owned or rented."<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2007-04-29-census_N.htm</ref>
Second, the 2010 system will use an updated version of the MAF/TIGER system. As described by the Census Bureau, "The MAF, or Master Address File, is designed to be a complete and current list of all addresses and locations where people live or work, covering an estimated 115 million residences, as well as 60 million businesses and other structures in the U.S. The TIGER® portion of the project is a digital database that identifies the type, location and name of streets, rivers, railroads and other geographic features, and geospatially defines their relationships to each other, to the MAF addresses, and to numerous other entities."<ref>http://www.census.gov/geo/mod/maftiger.html</ref> The improvements to the databases will include:
"(1) the realignment of every street and boundary in the TIGER database; <br>(2) development of a new MAF/TIGER processing environment and the integration of the two previously separate resources into a common technical platform; <br>(3) collection of global positioning system coordinates for structures on MAF; <br>(4) expansion of geographic partnership programs with state, local, and tribal governments, other federal agencies, the U.S. Postal Service, and the private sector; <br>(5) implementation of a program to use ACS enumerators to generate address updates, primarily in rural areas; and <br>(6) the use of periodic evaluation activities to provide quality metrics to guide corrective actions"<ref>http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12524&page=57</ref>
==Actual Enumeration==
==Actual Enumeration==