3 Oct
2002
3 Oct
'02
9:38 p.m.
The Census Bureau will conduct field testing for the 2010 census in
Colquitt, Thomas and Tift counties in Georgia, Lake County in Illinois
and a portion of northwestern Queens County in New York. A major
innovation that will be studied in 2004 is equipping field interviewers
with hand-held computing devices to collect questionnaire data, navigate
to assignments and update the Bureau's Master Address File. The devices
also will include global positioning system (GPS) technology that can
improve the process of assigning addresses to their correct geographic
location. In addition to studying new technologies, the 2004 census test
will examine a variety of methodological and operational improvements.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2002/cb02cn172.html