Scaled-down e-Census project 'a great success,' bureau says

The U.S. Census Bureau took a significant step toward its eventual goal of a true "paperless census" with the successful completion of a national address verification project that relied on the use of 151,000 handheld computers, an official said Wednesday. Earlier this month, the bureau completed its 2010 Decennial Census Address Canvassing. ADCan, as it is also known, involved more than 150,000 census field workers physically checking all 145 million home addresses in the U.S. It precedes every once-a-decade census.

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