Census Bureau Enters 21st Century
In the upcoming 2010 census, the Census Bureau for the first time will equip its temporary work force of 500,000 people with hand-held computers made by Harris to help them make a more precise count of more than 300 million people living in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. Every decade since 1790, the government has painstakingly counted the residents in each household. They do a pretty good job, with historical accuracy to half of 1 percent, according to Preston Jay Waite, associate director for the Decennial Census.
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