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U.S. Census Bureau Reaps Awards From MySQL-Based Web Sites
White Paper The United States Census Bureau conducts a massive Census of the 105 million U.S.households to collect updated national demographic information. Census Bureau also creates and manages web sites that serve as highly-accessible resources for anyone... [10 Apr 2008]
Learning to Count on Perl at the Census Bureau
White Paper Census Bureau leaves the selection of programming tools up to their techies, and more than a few in the back rooms of bureaucracy cut their teeth on Perl and a whole line of open source solutions. The Senior Internet Technology Architect who... [13 Sep 2007]
Learning to Count on Perl at the Census Bureau
White Paper Census Bureau leaves the selection of programming tools up to their techies, and more than a few in the back rooms of bureaucracy cut their teeth on Perl and a whole line of open source solutions. The Senior Internet Technology Architect who... [13 Sep 2007]
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 All the usual problems associated with stovepipe systems development exist at the Census Bureau such as data duplication, conflicting data definitions, and turf wars, etc. This paper describes the business intelligence effort for the Decennial... [02 Jun 2007]
Using SAS to Detect Errors in X12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment
White Paper Bureau of the Census to seasonally adjust monthly or quarterly time series. This paper features Base SAS and the X12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment program developed by the U.S. X12-ARIMA commonly encounters problems with the time series used as input... [03 May 2007]
Producing American Community Survey Edit Analysis Reports Dynamically Using SAS/IntrNet
White Paper Census Bureau produces several reports to support subject-matter analysts in their review of the edited survey data. Each year the Data Processing Team (DP Team) of the American Community Survey (ACS) at the U. [27 Apr 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 recognition. [11 Apr 2007]
Quality Assessment of Data Collected From Non-English Speaking Households in the American Community Survey
White Paper According to the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS), approximately 45 million people aged five years and older spoke a language other than English at home in 2000. Currently, there is little research investigating differences in data quality... [05 Feb 2007]
The Differences in Developing an Interactive Review System in SAS 6.12 and in SAS 8.2 HOLAP
White Paper Census Bureau evaluated different SAS technologies to find ones best suited for the development of an interactive system to review the Census 2000 long form data. The Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division (HHES) of the United States (U.S. [14 Dec 2006]
Creating Ranking Charts Using SAS/GRAPH and the Annotate Facility
White Paper Census Bureau began producing ranking charts and tables in order to provide reporters as well as Federal, state, and local government decision makers with a simple yet effective visual representation of comparative data on key issues across states... [13 Sep 2006]
Everyone Trying to Update at the Same Time?: Let's Try the Source Control Manager! (SAS/AF Development Tool)
White Paper Census Bureau for processing data from its economic surveys, is a prime candidate for SCM. The SAS/AF development tool Source Control Manager (SCM) is a source file management facility featuring SAS file check-out/check-in capability. [12 Sep 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 announcement. Again, it's not a surprise then that the Census Bureau has... [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 Bureau had previously used paper and pen to take US... [05 Apr 2006]
Broadband on the up in rural America
News The study used the Census Bureau's definition of rural, suburban and urban as the basis for the categories. Rural Americans are getting in the fast lane to the internet more and more but they still trail their city-dwelling counterparts by a... [27 Feb 2006]
