It distorts the political process and raises concerns about the fairness of the census process itself.
"This is an incredibly troubling selection that contradicts the administration's assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda," Mr. Issa said.
"Having made the decision to prosecute, for the CPS to now bottle it and deny people their day in court is a shameful retreat that illustrates just how absurd the census process has become.
Mr. Wagner and other groups had originally asked the bureau to determine the home addresses of inmates and to count them at those addresses, but the 2010 census process was too far along for that change to be considered.
Ms. Beltrán, a character in the popular Spanish-language soperapera "Más Sabe el Diablo," "The Devil Knows Best," represents only one element of the government's yearlong effort to garner trust among Hispanics, an ethnic group that has been historically wary of the decennial census process.
The census process is completed every decade, which really is too long a time to observe short-term trends that follow, for example, an economic recovery or important bill.
Darrell Issa (R CA), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, proclaimed that the choice of Groves "contradicts the Administration's assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda".
That gave rise to a detailed survey of Pune's slum dwellers, to become, amongst other things, the first ever spatial and socio-economic census processed and analysed on a geographical information system (GIS).
"Adding a question at this late stage of the census process does not allow time for adequate testing to incorporate new questions, particularly if the testing reveals substantial problems.
The FMS was a computerised system for storing the census process data reported by the CC via the CCRB.
