[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR40.1]

[Page 345-346]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
         CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 40--TRAINING OF FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS IN CENSUS PROCEDURES AND GENERAL STATISTICS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 40.1  Type of grant.

    Training grants will be awarded by the Agency for International 
Development (AID), in its capacity as the bilateral technical assistance 
agency for the United States Government, to foreign participants for 
training, observation, and research in the fields of censuses and 
statistics at the Bureau of the Census. In compliance with the needs of 
the participants and consistent with resources of the Bureau, training 
programs will be developed along the lines of a combined interne-
training and/or training-in research types, and may include any or all 
of the following:
    (a) Conference courses designed to provide the trainee with adequate 
background information on (1) organization and administration of the 
United States Bureau of the Census, (2) subject-matter areas for which 
the Bureau of the Census collects and compiles statistical information, 
(3) nature and scope of the major statistical programs maintained by 
other federal government agencies, (4) techniques and scope of the 
periodic censuses and statistical surveys, and statistical compilations 
undertaken by the Bureau of the Census, and (5) relation of censuses to 
other statistical data collected and analyzed by U.S. agencies.
    (b) Seminars laboratory exercises and observation of work in the 
Census Bureau and other agencies with specific

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applicability to the participant such as (1) development of census and 
survey questionnaires, (2) methods of field and mail enumeration, (3) 
procedures for editing and coding statistical forms, (4) use of office 
machines, electromechanical tabulation equipment, and automatic data 
processing systems for mass processing of statistical data, (5) 
definitions and scope of the subject matters involved in the censuses 
and statistical programs of the Bureau of the Census, (6) classification 
of industrial and business establishments, (7) classification of imports 
and exports, (8) techniques of making intercensal estimates of 
population, (9) sampling techniques and quality control procedures, (10) 
analyses and publication of data, and development of certain indexes; 
and (11) other topics, particularly in the development of new 
statistical programs and techniques.
    (c) Formal courses at a college or university to supplement the 
seminars, conference-courses, and individual statistical projects 
developed, presented, or assigned by the Bureau; or enrolled on a full-
time basis in a college or university to obtain the appropriate academic 
background for further work in the field of statistics in accordance 
with needs of participants and/or the program requirements of their 
countries.
    (d) Observation trips to various academic institutions with 
recognized statistical activities, to private marketing and research 
agencies, to regional field offices of the Bureau, to the government 
statistical agencies of Canada, and to such activities that will 
supplement or illustrate the application and end use of statistical 
data.
    (e) Case study workshops on selected census and statistical 
activities presented at the Bureau, in other locations in the United 
States, or outside the continental limits of the United States.
    (f) Such field training, special research, or university program as 
appears advisable to the Director of the Bureau of the Census in 
accordance with the technical needs of the participants.