Archive: census
Counting Countdown
Remember the story about how the census in 2010 might have to rely on paper -- Holy Moly! -- because of an apparently botched $624 million contract for handheld data collection devices? The overall budget for the census was originally set at about $12 billion. That was before cost...
By Robert O'Harrow | March 7, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (52)
Counting The Numbers
"The Census Bureau's program to develop handheld computers to collect data on Americans during the 2010 census is in "serious trouble," and the bureau should immediately develop plans to use paper forms, according to an analysis conducted by a government research firm and presented to top bureau managers in...
By Robert O'Harrow | January 11, 2008; 07:02 AM ET | Comments (4)
