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2nd Census Forms Mailed to Some Households
CHICAGO (AP) -- The U.S. Census Bureau is mailing second forms to millions of households across the Chicago region that had below-average response rates in the previous census.

Second questionnaires were mailed to every housing unit in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin that had a mail response rate of 59 percent or less in 2000. That's about 1.5 million households.

The questionnaires were sent regardless of whether households already returned their 2010 Census form.

The government saves money when people mail back their forms. It costs the government 42 cents to get a questionnaire back in the mail, and an average of $57 to count a household that fails to mail it back. The government sends census takers to U.S. households that fail to mail their forms.

On the Net:
2010.census.gov/2010census

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