Census
RSS CensusFinancial Transactions and Personal Data Security - Is Your Customers#$# Data Safe?
White Paper In 2007, a major Canadian bank lost a computer backup file that contained individual personal data of 470,000 of its customers.3 In 2008, Statistics Canada confirmed that a theft of completed census questionnaires had... [11 Nov 2009]
US Census Bureau Counts on SAS
White Paper Census Bureau employees and their sworn census agents from partnering states enjoy access to more than 1 billion records stored online in a client-server environment. The challenge was to slice, dice and... [19 Sep 2009]
Parameter Driven Data Integration Using SAS Stored Processes
White Paper The data warehouse at this large, metropolitan, state university consists of term and annual census data. Loading data into the warehouse is a Data Integration (DI) process that cannot be scheduled to run at a particular... [29 May 2009]
Using Formats, MP Connect, and Other SAS Efficiency Techniques to Save Time and Disk Space
White Paper Working with historic household Census data can be quite challenging. Semi-annual data sets can exceed 50 gigabytes and when working with multi-year data it is often necessary to extract information from yearly clusters... [29 May 2009]
Pathfinder Helps Jumpstart an Educational Reform Project in the Persian Gulf
White Paper Their client knew that there would be additional challenges beyond traditional census/field data collection. In an Arabic Gulf State, Pathfinder's client, a large Research and Data Analysis firm was engaged to collect... [10 Mar 2009]
With InputAccel, Organization Able to Enjoy Savings and Handle 60% Increase in Throughput
White Paper The Lucerne tax office first hired Interact Consulting, a company that had already garnered valuable experience in the efficient handling of extremely sensitive personal data during their "Swiss Federal Census 2000"... [04 Dec 2008]
Getting Started With the ESRI Map Component in a Unix Environment for 2010 Census Planning
White Paper As one followed these steps at the Bureau of the Census to get from ESRI map development on Windows to map-displayed OLAP Cube data on the Unix-based BI Platform, the paper encountered several unexpected roadblocks. [19 Sep 2008]
Healthcare Provider Improves Business Intelligence With Executive Dashboard
White Paper Evergreen is implementing a business-intelligence solution based on the 2007 Microsoft Office system that will reduce the time spent gathering daily census information from four hours to about 30 seconds per employee. [11 Jun 2008]
Australian Bureau of Statistics Turns to Enterprise Data Warehousing for Census 2006
White Paper Established in 1905, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia's central statistical authority, providing high quality, objective, and timely statistics about the nation's economy and its social and cultural characteristics. [05 Sep 2007]
The Enterprise Melting Pot: Everyone's a SAS User - They Just Don't Know It
White Paper This paper describes the business intelligence effort for the Decennial Census through implementation of SAS Business Intelligence. All the usual problems associated with stovepipe systems development exist at the... [02 Jun 2007]
Google puts cash into handwriting recognition tech
News IUPR is basing the software primarily on two research projects: one, a handwriting recognition system developed in the mid-1990s for use by the US Census Bureau; and two, newer layout analysis methods for character... [11 Apr 2007]
Suppliers under pressure as CIOs get tough
News Suppliers are set to come under more pressure this year as CIOs turn the screw and get tough in an attempt to get better value for money, according to the CIO Census 2007 report. The CIO Census also... [16 Jan 2007]
NIOSH Provides Occupational Health Data to State Agencies With SAS to Augment Research
White Paper Census data and county death certificates to determine if, for example, coal miners were indeed at greater risk for respiratory ailments than, say, office workers. State agencies in charge of monitoring the well-being of... [27 Dec 2006]
Leader: A 500,000 Microsoft device deal - so what?
Comment The US Census Bureau revealed it will be equipping its census takers with Microsoft devices - all 500,000 of them. Still, we'd doubt they're too concerned about Census Bureau... [06 Apr 2006]
Microsoft sells 500,000 mobile devices - at once
News Microsoft has won its biggest deal to date for the use of its Windows Mobile operating system, with the US Census Bureau. They will run Windows Mobile 5.0 and be used to take the 2010 census. The... [05 Apr 2006]
