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Technology Problems Could Add Billions To Cost Of 2010 U.S. Census, Hurt Accuracy

An AP newswire article, via CBS News, reports that:

Big worries for the nation's first high-tech census should have been obvious when tests showed some of the door-to-door headcounters couldn't figure out their fancy new handheld computers.

Now, officials say, technology problems could add as much as $2 billion to the cost of the 2010 census and jeopardize the accuracy of the nation's most important survey.

Census officials are considering a return to using paper and pencil to count every man, woman and child in the nation.

At more than $11 billion, the initial cost of the 2010 census was already the most expensive ever.

posted by Fergie @ 3/25/2008 07:58:00 PM