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LOS ANGELES — A computer system that the Census Bureau needs to manage its door-to-door count of the U.S. population remained buggy and prone to crash a day before enumerators were set to begin their work, government officials said Friday.
The bureau’s Paper Based Operations Control System did not function reliably in tests and “may not be able to perform as needed under full operational loads,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report.
The system will generate assignments for the roughly 635,000 enumerators hired to visit about 48 million homes to tally people who did not return their census forms by mail.
Denver Post wire services
