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Paul Auster I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.
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Tim Kennedy The thing we learned with large customers is one size does not fit all. Some want to run on mainframe, Unix, Linux, or Windows. It's hard to get a census of exactly what they want to run on.
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Jay Johnson Actually, the census will confirm what the Planning Department has been projecting.
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These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.
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John Edwards This is an especially valuable survey, because it drills down into the benefits, costs, challenges and unexpected consequences experienced by managers; much more than the census type research of employees produced to date.
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We've had as many as 69 (patients) or as little as 50. The census will fluctuate, just depending on what the needs are at the time.
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Kenneth Prewitt There's more information on your driver's license than on the census short form.
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Census 2000 did not do a good job with group quarters, but they have a major impact, particularly in small towns.
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Heather Boushey Given that the Census doesn't seem to have a clear plan, and given that it's taken about seven years to develop a new survey historically, I don't see that it will take only two years to develop something better than we have now.
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Given what happened to the Central Coast, it's hard to support the current system, but since the last census 3.6 million people have been added. And to turn over the most diverse state in the union to a panel of retired judges, which is a very undiverse group ... I'd support an independent commission, or an independent commission with legislative review, or some other kind of hybrid.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Kenneth Prewitt It is ... a complicated, challenging task. But the alternative is to just ignore them -- is to say, 'Well, even though we didn't count them and we know they are part of the United States, since we don't know where to put them, we'll just sort of leave them off the census rolls. That strikes us as a social injustice.
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Chang-Rae Lee We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.
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In Connecticut, because of our extremes of wealth, you can't rely on census data.
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The census shows the population is in a declining phase.
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The Census provides highs that are too low and lows that are too high. In effect, the Census income estimates artificially reduce the gap between the wealthiest and poorest Connecticut towns.
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Steve Davis The census is costing us right at $1 million, and all of that money we will recover, I believe, three for one in four years.
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Kenneth Prewitt The census is a scientific effort. We know that a census number is an estimate. It's not the truth,
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John Cole The census data for the most part confirms that.
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There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
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Terry Goodkind Right and wrong are not the product of census.