United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-01-05 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-208R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R P0b002ee1803773d1 f:d01208r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R GAO-01-208R Census Federal employees Human resources utilization Productivity in government Statistical data 2000 Decennial Census Correspondence GAO reviewed census data to better clarify the relationship between the Census Bureau's data collection workload and the time and work force needed to complete it. These factors--used to calculate productivity--are some of the largest drivers of census costs, and the Bureau developed its budget for the 2000 Census using a model that contained key assumptions about expected workload and enumerator productivity. GAO was unable to calculate productivity levels for the 2000 census or most of the earlier censuses examined because data was largely unavailable, incomplete, or not comparable. Moreover, definitional differences in how the Bureau counted the number of enumerators who worked on the census, and variations in census-taking methodologies, limited the comparability of productivity data from one census to the next. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R.pdf GAO-01-208R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-208R Correspondence GAO-01-208R; Decennial Censuses: Historical Data on Enumerator Productivity Are Limited; Census Federal employees Human resources utilization Productivity in government Statistical data 2000 Decennial Census