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Author: hancock4hancock4 Date: Mar 26, 2008 19:55
On Mar 25, 2:02Â pm, Anne & Lynn Wheeler garlic.com> wrote:
> The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT
> initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with
> specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau
> has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office (GAO)
> recommendations and may therefore be forced to scrap the program. Harris
> Corp., the contractor associated with this incompetently managed
> initiative, was awarded a $600 million contract to develop the handhelds
> and related software.
Go back to Hollerith cards.
Seriously, Census records from 1920 and 1930 are now available on
line. What's amazing is that though they're handwritten, they're
machine searchable, that is, type in a name and it will find the
person on a data form. Did modern reseachers have to key in all the
handwritten data? Was it machine encoded all along? (Alpha
processing didn't come along until the 1930s).
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Author: kktkkt Date: Mar 28, 2008 11:32
> On Mar 25, 2:02=A0pm, Anne & Lynn Wheeler garlic.com> wrote:
> >> The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT
>> initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods...
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Author: Steve KetchamSteve Ketcham Date: Mar 28, 2008 14:55
In article zipcon.net>, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
>> On Mar 25, 2:02=A0pm, Anne & Lynn Wheeler garlic.com> wrote:
>> >>> The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT
>>> initiative...
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Author: kktkkt Date: Mar 28, 2008 15:23
Steve Ketcham writes:
> In article zipcon.net>, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
> >>> On Mar 25, 2:02=A0pm, Anne & Lynn Wheeler garlic.com> wrote:
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Date: Mar 28, 2008 15:53
> Steve Ketcham writes:
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>> In article zipcon.net>, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
>> >>>> On Mar 25, 2:02=A0pm, Anne & Lynn Wheeler garlic.com> wrote:
>>>> >>>>> The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT
>>>>> initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with
>>>>> specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau
>>>>> has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office (GAO)
>>>>> recommendations and may therefore be forced to scrap the program. Harris
>>>>> Corp., the contractor associated with this incompetently managed
>>>>> initiative, was awarded a $600 million contract to develop the handhelds
>>>>> and related software.
>>>>
>>>> Go back to Hollerith cards.
>>>> ...
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Date: Mar 28, 2008 19:28
In article moog.netaxs.com>, rogblake10
@iname10.com says...> In article zipcon.net>, kkt wrote:>> Hm. Somehow I thought the individual records were private.
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> I've always refused to give the Census Bureau any information
> other than the number of people living in the household. That's
> all they are entitled to.
Not true.
--
Keith
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Author: William HamblenWilliam Hamblen Date: Mar 28, 2008 20:10
On 28 Mar 2008 15:23:03 -0700, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
>Steve Ketcham writes:
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>> In article zipcon.net>, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
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Author: Peter FlassPeter Flass Date: Mar 29, 2008 05:41
kkt wrote:
> Steve Ketcham writes:
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>>In article zipcon.net>, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>On Mar 25, 2:02=A0pm, Anne & Lynn Wheeler garlic.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT
>>>>>initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with
>>>>>specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau
>>>>>has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office (GAO)
>>>>>recommendations and may therefore be forced to scrap the program. Harris
>>>>>Corp., the contractor associated with this incompetently managed
>>>>>initiative, was awarded a $600 million contract to develop the handhelds ...
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Author: William HamblenWilliam Hamblen Date: Mar 29, 2008 07:13
On 29 Mar 2008 08:36:28 GMT, greymaus mail.com> wrote:
>On 2008-03-29, William Hamblen comcast.net> wrote:>> On 28 Mar 2008 15:23:03 -0700, kkt zipcon.net> wrote:
>>>>>Steve Ketcham writes:
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>>>> In article
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