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Digital Census 2020: How the US Census Bureau is surveying 330M people in a pandemic
How do you survey 330 million people across 4M square miles?
Every 10 years: the United States government is constitutionally required to take a census, which then gets used as the basis for distributed hundreds of billions of tax dollars.
In 2010, doing the census cost $12 billion. They printed 17 million pages of paper maps and 50 million paper questionnaires.
In 2020, the Census Bureau is going digital in 59 languages. Good timing too: COVID-19 happened, and the Census Bureau had to cut back some of their door-to-door surveying.
In this TechFirst with John Koetsier, we chat with the US…
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