it remains the same. we asked only 10 questions, just for more than in 1790 and do very much the same content bri. they would be amazed at how the new nation has evolved in changed. it has survived and thrived. today, in reporting these results, our great american democracy renews itself in the midst of a changing nation, peacefully, fairly, and openly. i am honored to introduce to you, the man charged by congress with making sure the department of congress conducts the

census, the secretary gary lauck. he is interested in an envelope with key decisions over the past 80 months. bet is that an honor to serve with you and to serve you to make sure this meant it was completed. ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming the secretary gary locke. [applause] >> thank you very much for the introduction and for your remarks in the history of the census. it is a pleasure to be with all of you this morning. some important news must be about to be unveiled. this is an important day for the american people and earlier this morning, in accordance with law and fulfillment of a constitutional mandate, i delivered the 2010 census of findings to the president of the united states produces a ritual that has occurred for only 23 other -- 22 other times in history. i included the national and state populations and the

apportionment for the allocation of seats to the united states house of representatives. , based on the official count of the 2010 census. i told the president also that the 2010 census was completed on time and under budget. before we get to the actual numbers, it is important to stress this achievement. it demonstrates that government can deliver a promise on time and within its budget. before this census began, experts inside and outside the government predicted that longstanding operational and fiscal problems at the u.s. census bureau would doom the 2010 census to cost overruns and diminished participation by the american people. in 2009, the commerce department's: inspector general and accounting officer ranks the 2010 census as one of the federal government programs most likely to fail. that did not happen.

earlier this summer, i joined dr. groves to say that we had spent $1.6 billion less than we were given by the congress for census operation in 2010. with the final accounting completed, i am pleased to announce that the number has grown to $1.87 billion. that was under budget which represents more than 25% of the total that congress allocated in 2010 for spending on the docennial census. this can be attributable to better management, greater productivity among our census takers, and our successful effort to get more americans to mail back their census forms which reduced the number of census employees we had to hire to go door-to-door county. the other half of the $1.87 billion is from reserves we set aside to deal with operational

problems such as concerns with our computer systems and other unforeseen circumstances such as severe weather, all of which, fortunately, never rose. 74% of u.s. households return to the census questionnaire by malcolm imagine what had been achieved in the 2000 census and the exceeding the predictions of the experts and halting a three- decade decline in mailbox response since 1970. these are substantial achievements that did not happen by chance. the senior management of the department of commerce and the census bureau ran a tight ship. we constantly demanded accountability, a rigorous internal management reforms, and constant monitoring of performance. we made sure we stretched every taxpayer dollar as far as it could go. we also revamp our public outreach efforts and our

advertising was marked more targeted than it ever was before. with concentrated advertising and hard to count communities, advertising in more languages, we also set aside resources to rapidly intervene if necessary with the targeted advertising and outrage in areas with lagging response rates. the impact of this targeting effort was measurable and the media. in late march of this past year, the census bureau had identified media markets containing a total of 17.7 million households that seriously flag in mail back response. after three weeks of more intensive advertising and public engagements, low performers were reduced to just 10 media markets with 1.6 million households. we could not have realized these settings without the american public's impressive participation in the 2010 census. we would like to express' our

deep end most sincere thanks to all those who returned the questionnaire or took a few minutes to answer the simple questions from the almost 750,000 census workers. all of you have helped us paid to this latest portrait of america. we will start showing you this in a few seconds. the 2010 census has been a priority of mine since my very first day as commerce secretary, perhaps made more so because of the pessimistic predictions. in fact, the first that i did as secretary before i even set foot in the commerce department building was to attend a kickoff meeting with 2010 census partners at a washington d.c. conference center. for the 2010 census, there were more than two of its 57,000 partner organizations all across -- there were more than two of the 50,000 -- there were more than 257,000 partner

organizations all across america. there were large and small and many of them are represented today. they deserve our heartfelt thanks for their support, commitment, and they're tremendously successful efforts. much is riding on these efforts. this will determine how more than $400 billion is allocated every year by the federal government and for the next 10 years to local communities for everything from education, to senior souter services, to housing, law enforcement, transportation. the 2010 census will help shape the makeup of all state legislatures and make the allocation to the house of representatives. our business colleagues will also benefit enormously from the census data. this will provide valuable information that the business community will identify you -- will use to identify new business markets as to where to

make capital investments and create more jobs and grow our economy. indeed, the 2010 census will serve as a backbone for our political and economic system for years to come. it has been a real pleasure to work with our great colleagues and professionals at the census bureau. it is a pleasure to be here on this important day for our nation. i am so very proud of our entire management team at the secretary's office, the department, is, the census bureau, the temporary census workers, and our hundreds of thousands of community partners. with that, let's get on to the news and statistics and information you have been waiting for. i will turn it over to dr. bob groves to give us that exciting news. [applause] >> thank you. i am proud on behalf of all my

colleagues at the census bureau to report to the american public the 2010 census national and state population council and the apportionment results for the u.s. house of representatives. as you have heard, this is the 23rd time this country has done this. at that time, we were just a nation of 3.9 million people in 1790. this is the time when all of us come together to count ourselves and make possible critical steps in a democracy. we begin this release with the revelation of the national population count, the official count of the u.s. as of april 1, 2010. the population on that date is the cumulative effect of generations of americans are growing and moving throughout the country. this first graphic tracks the growth of the 50 states, even reflecting the populations of territories that later became

states. 100 years ago, in 1910, there were 92 million people in this country. by 1970, the population had more than doubled. 10 years ago, the resident population, the population of the 50 states and the district of columbia, was 281,421,906 persons, 10 years ago. under a constitutional mandate, the census bureau was charged with the job of conducting the 2010 census to update that number. following that in early 2009, our staff visited every street in this country to update our list of addresses. in 2010, we mailed or delivered 132 million forms. we worked with over 250,000 community and civic

organizations to promote the census. we hired 600,000 staff members to knock on about 50 million doors around the country to collect data in person. and then we optically scanned 166 million forms. we built and reviewed very large datasets stripped of personal identifiers. at this point, i am happy and proud to note that we have finished the work required to produce our first 2010 census product and i ask that secretary locke and undersecretary blank join me in revealing for the first time to everyone in the country at the very same moment both here, on television, and on the internet, the official u.s. april 1, 2010 population count. as of april 1, 2010, the

resident u.s. population is 308,745,538 persons. [applause] that should do it. this 2010 census population represents a growth of 9.7% over the official population count of 2000. i will provide more details

including the 2010 state population counts and i will review the results of the reapportionment of the house of representatives. first, let's break down the national figures to see the variation within the country showing geographical variation in population growth. here we see the continuation of a multi-decade trend of growth in the southern and western regions. the ne group by a rate of 3.2% over last tenures. the midwest grew by 3.9%. the south, already the reason with the largest population, grew by 14.3%. finally, the west provide 13.8%. if you look at the state map, we see large variations across the states. many different circumstances have combined to contribute to

the population growth or decline in each state are the state with the largest rate of population growth in the last 10 years is nevada with 35.1% growth. i note that in the last census, nevada showed a 66% growth. on the other hand, mich. saw a decline of the 0.6% and puerto rico a decline of 2.2%. in census 2000, 10 years ago, no state experienced a 10-year decline. however, in the 1990 census, four states experience decline. let's go into each region. within three regions, you will see very asians across each state. we begin in the northeast where we see rhode island with 0.4% growth compared to new hampshire with 6.5% growth. in the midwest, we again see the decline in michigan but we also

see a 7.9% growth in south dakota. in the south, there was a great range among individual states. for example, louisiana with a 1.4% growth and west virginia with a 2.5% growth can be contrasted with texas with a 20.6% growth. in the west, there is even a wider difference between montana at 9.6% growth and again in nevada with 35.1%. i turned to the implication of the 2010 officials said its results on the membership of the u.s. house of representatives. as you know, the constitutional purpose of the census is the redistribution of the membership of the house of representatives across state proportional to the population. the official 2010 population count at the state level on congressional

apportionment is a shift of 12 seats affecting eight different states. those states gaining seats include arizona, florida, georgia, nevada, south carolina, texas, utah, and washington, as you see on the graphic. those losing states are illinois, iowa, louisiana, massachusetts, michigan, missouri, new jersey, new york, ohio, and pennsylvania. for 32 states, there is no change. texas gained the most seats this decade, a total of four and indeed, that state has gained seats for seven consecutive decades. the next graphic shows a national snapshot of the 2010 census apportionment of the house of representatives.

california will have 53 seats. texas will have 36 seats. new york and florida will each have 27. seven states will have only one representative. the average population size of each house district will be 710,767 persons. this is up from 646,952 at this time in 2000. i might note, in 1790, each representative represented 34,000 people, roughly. we have grown. to examining the pattern of population change. over the last 100 years, the rate of growth of the u.s. population has gradually slowed.

this is true in many developed societies. there is a lot of variation across the decades. as you can see from the red line in this graphic. there are two notable decades here. between 1930 and 1940, the small growth rate of 7.3% is thought to be related to the great depression of the 1930's. between 1950 and 1960, the high growth rate of 18.5% reflects the so-called baby boom. the percentage growth this last decade, as i stated earlier, 9.7%, is thus the second lowest of the past century. the census bureau also tracks the center of the population each decade. in 1790, the center of the population was in kent county,

maryland. it consistently moved west and in more decades, noticeably south. in the year 2000, it sat in southern missouri. we have not yet computed the new center. it is based on lower geography date. we cannot wait to see if the center will remain somewhere in the state of missouri or move south into arkansas. we will let you know as soon as we know. another way of looking at change in the population over time is to consider the relative sizes of the four major regions of the country. in 1910, the west region comprised only 7.7% of the national population. in 1990, for the very first time, the northeast became our smallest region with 20.4%.

the northeast and midwest regions consistently declined in relative size over the last 100 years. in contrast, by the 2000 census, the west was 22.5% vs. the early 7.7% in 1910. based on the 2010 results, we note that this is the very first decade in our country's history that the west region is more populous than the midwest. at states with the largest and smallest populations in the country. in 1910, four of the five most populous states were in the northeast and midwest with texas as a fifth. starting in 1940, calif. displaced texas in the top five.

by 1970, texas or rejoined the top five. in 1990, florida joined the top five. new york is the only state that is ranked among the five largest in each decade. in fact, this has been true since 1790. what are the top five most populous states as of april 1, 2010? they are california, texas, new york, florida, and illinois. you see there population counts there on the graphic. the identities of the five least populous states vary less over the decades. if we look at alaska, i note that it grew from 64,000 people as the territory in 1910 to 627,000 in the year 2000. yet it has always been among the

least of the five least populous states. we know that delaware and vermont on the east coast are also consistently among the least populous states. today, according to the 2010 census, the least populous states include wyoming, vt., north dakota, alaska, and south dakota. i have been talking about the size of populations but let's turn to personage change, the rate of growth of populations over the decade. between 1920 and 1930, michigan grew at a rate of 32%, reflecting the growing manufacturing sector in the state. between 1950 and 1960, florida grew at a faster rate of 78.8% reflecting migration from northern states, the prevalence

of air-conditioning and economic conditions in the state. arizona has been among the five states with the highest population growth for nine of the last 10 decades. , starting with a growth rate of 61.5% and more recently in 1990, 2040% growth rate. based on the 2010 census, the five states with the fastest growth rate during the past decade r nevada, arizona, utah, idaho, and texas and you could see their growth rates there on the graphic. there is also a story to tell for the states with the slowest growth or declines over the past century. the 1920's saw the great migration from the south out of states such as georgia. during the dust bowl years in

the 1930's and 1940's, many residents of the great plains were forced to leave. also consider west virginia where the population decline for two decades and rebounded strongly in the 1970's reflecting the changing fortunes of coal mining. losses there can be temporary. this decade, the five states with the slowest growth include michigan, rhode island, louisiana, ohio, and new york. turn to the geographical dispersion of the population. we are a large country, geographically. our population is not evenly spread throughout. an important attribute is population density measured by the average number of persons per square mile. i have been talking a lot about movement east to west but it is important to note that the five

states with the highest population density have remains the same for the past 40 years in this country. they are new jersey, rhode island, massachusetts, connecticut, and maryland, all of these were part of the original 13 states in the country. the five states with the lowest population density have remained the same for the last 20 years. the ranking varies somewhat over those years. they are alaska, wyoming, montana, north dakota, and south dakota. those are states with some of the larger land mass in the country. let me sum of -- is really complete our first look at the result of the 2010 census. there is much, much more to come revealing our our country has changed over the last 10 years at levels as small as a city block, as small as school

districts and counties and cities throughout the country. i want to end his press conference with some thank yous to the nearly 309 million residents of this wonderful country. i thank you on behalf of all of us at the census bureau for your civic participation in the 2010 census. i want to thank the thousands of census bureau staff throughout the country and want to congratulate them for a job well done in the 2010 census. especially to secretary locke and deputy secretary blank, this was a team with a leader and secretary locke that allowed us to keep our eye on the price throughout this endeavor with his input and leadership throughout this sentence, we have produced for the country wonderful sense is, in my belief. i want to thank you for the hundreds of hours, both of you,

that you spent assuring that this sense as was the success. importantly for me, it was conducted in a non-partisan and professionally statistical way -- statistically valid way. i want to thank you for coming today and i know how to pack your schedules are and i thank you for your continuing support. this end my remarks today. [applause] >> a couple of announcements -- we will open on toq &a in a second. if you are on twitter, you can send a quest. ion. if you are on the telephone, you need to o pressne.

we'll start questions right in front. if you want to go to our website,c eitherensus.gov. the materials we are handing out are on our website now census.gov. please identify your affiliation. >> what do you attribute the slow growth of louisiana to and what impact with hurricane katrina? >> what attribute of these numbers is that we have looked at them only for a few days just as you have seen them only for a few minutes. the growth in any state is yet to be discovered in terms of what the root causes are.

>> we have a question on the phone? we will go to the front row. >> what is the significance of the population center and do you suspect it will be in arkansas? [laughter] >> the signals because of the population center is the added to the question if everyone always the same amount and we balance the country by geography, where with the center point thbe? the value of track and the center of population overtime is that it teaches us how we have changed as a country. this opened south and west is really a simple way to know how we as a population have changed

and moved over the decades. >> we will go to a question on the phone, please. >> thank you for doing this. i have a question about the rate of growth. since the 1930's, what is the main reason? is it because of the emigration issue or also because fewer births? >> growth in our country comes both from natural increases, fertility processes of the folks who live here, and part of the growth is due to that in this country and part of the growth is due to emigration. based to our demographic analysis, it looks like about 60% of the growth over this decade is due to natural increases in maybe 40% due to

emigration. >> we have a question from twitter. when and where do we get the count here? >> started in february, state- by-state, the census bureau will release data that will be used by the states for redistricting. that information gives counts down to the block level. you can assemble blocks up to county levels from that the data. that will be february through the end of march and then later we will begin to have profiles and other files released that will give results and all sorts of geographic information. >> you spoke about the ways the

population grows. can you specifically speak about california and how much of its population -- a group by 10% and how much of that was immigration. >> on december 6, we released estimates of the population based on birth and death certificates in migrant. s. that process does not allow us to go to the state level. our answer to your question, we don't really have. we have a wonderful tool in this country called the american community service that tracks over time where people reported where they lived in the prior year and that would be one way of going about answering that question. i don't have that data with me. >> do we have a question on the phone?

>> good morning, everyone. i would like to know the actual budget from congress for the 2010 census. what is the actual dollar amount? >> secretary locke referred to the 2010 fiscal year budget which was about $7.4 billion. that money was spent on census operations, data collections operations and the beginning of the processing activities. as he noted, of that $7.4 billion, we were able to return $1.87 billion. we saved enough money to return that to the treasury.

>> a new question from a twister. were undocumented residents included? >> in every census since 1790, following the guidance of the founding fathers, we have counted all persons who live in the country. we count residents whether they are citizens or not, whether they are documented or not, we did that in 2010 just as we have done it every 10 years since not a 1790. as you may recall from your census questionnaire, we did not have a question on whether you were a citizen or not and hence, from these accounts, we cannot answer the kind of questions that some have about the proportion of the population that is in new immigrants a based on the census data. >> the other side of the room, the gentleman in the back row.

>> am i correct in remembering that 1910 was the last time that the number of members of the house of representatives went up to its current level of 435? since the district's keep getting larger, will there be a point where the census bureau will have to consider increasing the number of districts and does that require an act of congress? >> on the first question, the size of 435 seats was fixed for the 1920 census. i remind us that the 1920 census did not lead to a reapportionment of the 1920 house. that was the one decade where the census was not used for reapportionment. on your second question, the size of congress is a matter for a.

congress the census bureau has no role in determining or recommending the number of seats. that is a matter for the congress itself. >> i think we have another question on the phone. >> i have two quick questions. in new mexico, there was an undercount. -- not an undercount but not many people answered the questionnaire. what did the census do to make sure that new mexico had an accurate count? >> this is a great question. it allows me to go over how we do a census. we do indeed mail out or deliver questionnaires but that is the beginning of the process. you can think of that as the first half of a census.

any household that did not return the questionnaire we sent them was followed up in what we call the non-response follow-up status. that amounted to about 57 million households. we knocked on those doors repeatedly. we visited as many as six times throughout the bat process. the relationship between the male return rate and a complete count is quite fuzzy because we follow up on every household. at the end of this process, for every household on our master address file, we have a resolution, we have a population estimate, we have a population count through all our processing and data collection. the census, as much as we can know from our operations, is completed and all those areas. >> thank you. >> we have another question from

twittered. is the female to male ratio changes >>? from this data, we have not released counts by. gender we will do that over the coming months. we can look at this ratio. this is an important ratio for us as statisticians because we have the ratio of males to females by age from the vital registration system. most people believe those to be pretty good numbers. as soon as we get the same sex ratios, male to female ratio, from the senses, we will compare those as a way to compare demographic analysis to the senses and that will give us inside as to how good democratic -- demographic analysis is.

so far, we don't have those gender ratios. >> the gentle man in the second row. >> can you talk about the variation in size of the ratios of constituents per member of congress under this apportionment? which states were next in line for seats? >> i am not prepared to talk to. leverrier -- i am not prepared to talk on the variation. i have not done that yet that that can be easily done. you take the population of the state and divide by the seat and you have the variation. the method of apportionment plans to reduce that variation. that is why it has been used since 1940. seat was assigned to

minnesota. they did not change their seats. the next state in line was, if we had a 430 6seat would have been assigned to north carolina. the population difference that would have switched the order of minnesota and north carolina was 15,700. that is the largest discrepancy in half a century. there is a pretty good spread between the 435 and 436 relative to past censi. >> let's go to a question over here. i believe you said the decade between 1930's, the decade of the great depression, was the slowest growth rate, 7.3%?

have you calculated how this great recession affected the 9.7% growth rate in 2010 and where does that rank in terms of smaller growth rates? >> q you haveuoted me right and this is an assertion on the part of historians that the great depression depressed growth rate for we don't have anything to compare that to. the case is pretty attractive to make that the depression hurt the growth rate. teasing out a marginal effect of the great depression versus all the things that were happening in that decade is just as hard as trying to answer your question, what is the marginal effect of the recession on our. growth rate many developed countries around the world are slowing in their growth rates. this is a pattern, it is a

worldwide pattern. part of is is that and part of it may be the recession very we will never really be able to piece those a thingspart. >> will go to another question on the fund. -- we will go to another question on the phone. >> i apologize because -- if you address to this. can you tell us whether the inclusion of the overseas military and federal civilian population in the state population totals of fact of the apportionment outcome in any way as it did in the last to twoce nsi? >> i do not know the answer to that question. we have not done that. as you know, the oversees federal employees, the department of defense employees who are stationed abroad, state

and other federal agencies, supplied to the census bureau counts of their personnel by their home state. we assigned, for a portion of purposes, those counts to the home state. we don't have a finer geographical data so that those accounts are not used in the redistricting process but they are used in the reapportionment process. this is a hypothetical question that if you pulled them out, would it change the abortion and processed. i don't know the answer to that. -- would it change the apportionment process. i don't know the answer to that. was that ther census does not ask questions regarding citizenship. i am referring to the undocumented especially from

asia. what would be the process after the count that you would pursue to be able to have an estimate, more or less, of the undocumented? especially those coming from asia. >> i refer you, first of all in thinking of the senses, to article 1, section 2 of the constitution that specifies that congress specifies how the census will be taken by law. the one answer is that if you are talking a d about theecennnial census, congress would weigh in. our other surveys that we do ask about country of origin and we ask other questions that get to this. none of the surveys we do ask

about the documentation status of non-citizens. this is something that we have not inquired into. >> that is a good segue to our next question from twitter it was the difference between these results today and the recent american community survey results? >> there are multiple estimates. this refers to a huge released a small area estimates that we provided a few days ago. there are several differences. they reflect the. is 2005-2009 -- very period 2005-2009, ours is more recent. one of the benefits of the short form census was all this did not have a lot of work to do. it took just minutes to fill this out. the bad thing about that is that there are not many pieces of information in the dicennial

census. the acs survey is rich in economic data, housing data, travel, patterns of travel to work and so on. using those in combination is a wonderful way to understand this country. that is how we use them at the census bureau. >> we will do a couple more questions in the room and go back to the phone. >> going into today, there was speculation that new york might lose only one house seat instead of two. how close was it? how much of the slow population growth in the york was due to migration? >> i will disappoint you because

i cannot answer either one of your questions at this point. your first question is answerable by going through the apportionment process and seeing how far down n.y. was for the second question is a little like other questions we talked about today. piecing apart the causes of growth or decline is really a complicated process. the census is a snapshot. we have two portraits, 2000- 2010. i focus your attention on the debt is between those two time flies. a lot happened in 10 years. the singapore the marginal effects of those are very difficult. this is the matter -- piecing apart the marginal effects of those are very difficult.

we combine this with other information to try to answer those questions. today, we have not scratched the surface at answering those questions >> gentlemen in the front row? >> at this point, what do you know about those without housing, those that would be considered homeless that you were not able to send a census form to or deliver it to them personally? is there reason to believe this census would be more or less accurate in the past and is there any dramatic changes that you can notice at this point? >> this is the third sense as we have had a very deliberate approach at those who are homeless. on march 29, march 30, and march

31, of 2010, we had three separate operations that were the culmination of a lot of outrage to local communities organizations that help locate where the homeless tended to congregate either for the provision of services, food, and shelter so we went to soup kitchens and shelters or at outdoor locations. on those three days, we made a massive effort to counter the a. homeless those counter added in and are part of the numbers we just released. separatelyblish counts of the homeless nor are there plans to do so. i can say with regard to your question that this is one of the toughest challenges of the census bureau. we acknowledge that. we believe we are relatively successful in counting homeless

when there are groups together. and isolated homeless person who lives in a tent in the woods of wyoming, we may not get and we acknowledge that. this is a challenge for every developed country in the world and we do the best weekend. >> we will go back to the phones. >> you talked about getting a fourth seed in the house of congress and talked about missionaries overseas. can you speak to not counting the missionaries in this sense this and whether or not that might have made a difference in a fifth seat this time around? >> i think you are or referring to utah gaining a seat, given its relative growth rate.

the procedure is it used for accounting residents in 2010 with regard to the missionary population were exactly the same as in 2000. those out of the country were not counted as part of the census operation. did i answer your question? >> i was wondering what the reason for that was? was that considered for this sense as given lawsuit last time and the concerns raised about those people not being counted and whether or not that number might have made a difference in pushing utah toward a fifth seat since her so close last time? >> i have only been in my job about a year-and-a-half. to my knowledge, there was no serious reconsideration of

accounting procedures for missionaries. with regard to whether it had recounted them the seat allocation would have been different, i cannot speak to because i don't know how many there would be. one can go about that if you have that estimate. >> fact >> you. -- >> thank you. >> how do we find out the minority counts for each state? >> in the files that we will release starting in february, we will have block level. counts those accounts will be broken down by race and ethnicity groups. from that data, one can derive council all level of aggregation for minority groups and i expect there will be hundreds of thousands of people doing that

as soon as those files are out. later on we will have more specific reports that will give you those breakdowns directly. >> two more questions. in the room. >> to fall on the katrina question, there was a call for a recount in those areas since the victims had moved to other states. is that likely to happen and will you still support that as you did months ago? >> let me clarify what occurred. i have actually visited the new orleans area several times. we changed our operation to address the unique circumstances in a different parishes. we have delivered questionnaires. we wanted to make sure that we kept up-to-date with the family

dynamic population. people are moving back and rebuild and one to count people as best we can. we never violated the principle that we count people where they usually live. i understand that some who are now living in baton rouge or mississippi or houston think of themselves as new orleans residents, under the accounting rules of 1790, they must be counted where they now live and that is how we counted them. we did attempt to count as accurately as we can through these extraordinary procedures were used in that area other parts of the gulf coast got the same treatment >> one more question from the phone. >> my question was answered,

thank you. >> do we have one more on a fallen? -- on the phone? >> regarding idaho among the five fastest-growing states, do you attribute that to the larger trend of population moving out of the northeast and midwest toward the west or are there other factors that might have contributed? >> we share all the speculation you just went through very we can't wait to dive into this to get more information about these patterns of migration. there are tons of demographers as we speak working on answers to your question. i don't think anybody knows this yet. >> thank you. >> thank you everybody for joining us and you can go to census.gov. this operation is on the website. you also will get a transcript

of the directors remarks and you will have a full transcript within 24 hours of the even today. fact g dr.roves. [laughter] -- thank you dr.groves. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010]

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