Census Employment Bubble Bursts

[boedicca]

You're wasting your keystrokes, bub.

TM is congenitally unable to get a grip on reality.

It must have something to do with her being an arsenic based life form.

 

[westwall]

You're wasting your keystrokes, bub.

TM is congenitally unable to get a grip on reality.

It must have something to do with her being an arsenic based life form.

 

[Truthmatters]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/general/116209-census-productivity.html

Your lnk goes to one of your posts hack

 

[Truthmatters]

Lockheed Gets Census Job - washingtonpost.com

Lockheed Martin were picked in 2005 BTY, who ran the gov then?


The Obama pick for head reduced the costs all over the place.

 

[boedicca]

You sad sack of silliness.

I linked to a post I had already created instead of redoing something I had already done. It's quite obvious that I am quoting myself; I didn't conceal it.

And again, you are a blithering idiot.

 

[Truthmatters]

2010 United States Census - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Cost
The Government Accountability Office estimated in 2004 that the cost of the 2010 Census would be over $11 billion.[13] In a detailed report to Congress, it called on the Census Bureau to address cost and design issues.[14]

Lockheed Martin won a six-year, $500 million contract to capture and standardize data for the census. The contract includes systems, facilities, and staffing.[citation needed] Information technology will be about a quarter of the projected $11.3 billion cost of the decennial census.[15] This was the first census to use hand-held computing devices with GPS capability, although they were only used for the address canvassing operation. The Census Bureau chose to conduct the primary operation, Non-Response Follow Up (NRFU), without using the handheld computing devices.[16][17]

In August 2010, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced that the census operational costs came in significantly under budget; of an almost $7 billion operational budget:[18]

$650 million was saved in the budget for the door-to-door questioning (a.k.a. NRFU) phase because 72 percent of households returned mailed questionnaires;
$150 million was saved because of lower-than-planned costs in areas including Alaska and tribal lands; and
the $800 million emergency fund ended up not being needed.
Secretary Locke credited the management practices of Census Bureau Director Robert Groves, citing in particular the decision to buy additional advertising in locations where responses lagged, which improved the overall response rate. The agency also has begun to rely more on questioning neighbors or other reliable third parties when a person could not be immediately reached at home, which reduced the cost of follow-up visits. Census data for roughly 22 percent, or more than 1 in 5, of U.S. households that did not reply by mail were based on such outside interviews, Groves said.[18]

The effect Obama had on this was hiring the head.

He kicked ass in bringing it under projected budget.

 

[Truthmatters]

You sad sack of silliness.

I linked to a post I had already created instead of redoing something I had already done. It's quite obvious that I am quoting myself; I didn't conceal it.

And again, you are a blithering idiot.

WHERE in that post you linked to is the link for the info?

 

[boedicca]

Sorry TM.

Despite my wide ranging skill set, I cannot read for comprehension on your behalf.

 

[Truthmatters]

Census productivity addressed here:

The Census just added 600,000 more workers for the door to door count.

I’ve discovered that many of our new enumerators, working on the Nonresponse Followup activities of the 2010 Census, are Facebook fans or have looked at my blog, so this is a message to them:

Welcome to the 2010 Census!

You are the heart of the operations for the second half of the census. To everyone you meet as an enumerator, you are also the face of the US Federal government. It’s a big responsibility; you must treat everyone with respect, even though not everyone will treat you with similar respect.

Our “customers” are those who have not yet been counted. You’ll probably meet some people with very little understanding of the census, and some with very deep understanding. Each person will have their own perspective on what we’re asking of them. Listening to what they have to say is an important step for you to effectively communicate our message to them.

You’re probably working in neighborhoods around your own home, but may have assignments in parts that aren’t as familiar to you. One of the interesting things in the job is meeting people you ordinarily would not know. It’s an adventure; remember to enjoy that part of the job.

We are relying on you – to make sure we count everyone once and only once and in the right place. We are asking about the April 1, 2010, composition of the houses you visit. You’ll probably find some complicated situations that aren’t easy applications of the training guidelines. Ask for help when you need it, to make sure we get things right.

According to the Census website, the total field operations for the Census consists of 1.2M people.

Math:

There are approx. 113M households in the U.S. The response rate on the census was 72% ( 2010 Census ), which means 31.6M households need to be visited.

With 1.2M field operations staff, that comes to 26 households to visit person, or 52 if working in teams of two. The door-door phase goes from May through July, 3 months. Assuming 60 workdays (which is what a normal person would work during this time)...well, let's lower it to 52, that means only 1 household visit per team per day.

I don't get it. I suspect there is a minority of Census workers who are quite busy (at least a couple of them are USMB members) while a bunch of them are doing nothing. My guesstimate is that the census is overstaffed by a factor of at least 3X.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/general/116209-census-productivity.html

Where is the link to your numbers, the link given just goes to a thread written by you with no links in it.

 

[boedicca]

So sad that you lack the ability to search and read for comprehension.

The 600,000 is in the director's blog at the source link.

The 1.2M total census workers was widely reported in the news, late last year and early this one, but as you do not retain any news knowledge, here you go:

Need a job? Feds to hire 1.2 million Americans for census | McClatchy


The population data is also widely available. I did my own math, a concept which is foreign to you.