Using Census Bureau Technology to Help

The Census Bureau is at its best when it develops new techniques and technology to improve its own processes. Whenever we see a good opportunity to share the techniques, we do. The U.S. Census Bureau recently partnered with USAID in providing technical assistance to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics for its 2011 Population Census through the deployment of the Census Bureau’s integrated Computer Assisted Data Entry (iCADE) technology. To deploy the iCADE system for Bangladesh’s 2011 Population Census, the Census Bureau provided the following support, training, and guidance: (1) the creation of the Population Census forms in Bengali with 9...