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Back to pencil and paper for 2010 census

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  • Government is scrapping plans to use handheld computers to collect data
  • Change will add $3 billion to the cost of the constitutionally mandated count
  • Overall cost of collecting census data: $14 billion
  • Computer systems proved too complex for some temporary workers in tests
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