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Show Extensive census data now available desiring information relating to the State can contact the organization and receive assistance. Valdez told conieience participants that, based on the IDSiO census, population is moving westward and that "this will be one of the smallest population increases in our historyrM The census is required to be, taken every ye'ar ending in 0 by the United States Constitution. It is especially important lor determining Congressional and reapportionment. I'.ased on I'.mn census data. Utah will gain an additional representative to the House don't realize how much data is collected and how it can be used," she explained. ex-plained. . One of the sources lor Utah data is the Five County Association of Governments. People Few people realize the vast quantity of data : available to them as a result of the United States Census according to Gina Valdez, United States Census Bureau representative. Census data can be used in a variety of planning processes and to make decisions with regards to business, housing, transportation, ancestry, education, population and movement trends and much more. Southern Utah residents learned about the census and its possible uses during a day-long workshop conducted last week at Southern Utah State College. Gina Valdez, representing the Denver regional office of the Census Bureau, conducted con-ducted the workshop. "Normally a lot of people |