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PENCILS UP!
The year 2000 is a big deadline for the US Census Bureau, but not in the usual way:
That's when the Bureau launches Census 2000, a survey of every US household. The
census is commanded by the US Constitution, and determines apportionment of Congressional
seats, and generates population, income, education, and housing data that influences
government policy.
To tackle the big job, the Bureau is firing up a new Web-based computer system built
on Oracle's database and Internet technologies. But while the Web will be reshaping
statisticians desktops, not one question about the Internet, the Web, or computers
appears anywhere on the proposed Census 2000 questionnaire.
Quite an oversight for the Census Bureau, which invented the punch card machine to
compute census results, after spending 8 years tabulating the 1880 census by hand.
Rich Levin, KYW Newsradio.
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