Census Bureau?s StatVentures reaches outside government for innovative data collection methods, sources. Learn more in this story.





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Public Can Now Help Census Bureau Design How It Collects Data

The U.S. Census Bureau?s mission has always been rooted in a basic principle of public partnership: It asks every person living in America to participate in its constitutionally mandated once-a-decade population count and relies on public participation to produce more than 130 other surveys each year.

But what happens when we ask the public to help us come up with the most innovative ways to design how we collect our data?

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?We?re calling on America?s brightest minds to help us discover the next methods and data sources for the U.S. Census Bureau,? says Ron Jarmin, the Census Bureau?s deputy director.

That?s the idea behind StatVentures, an initiative of Census Open Innovation Labs (COIL) launched in October. StatVentures scouts technology through collaborations with innovators outside government to ensure the Census Bureau provides quality data more efficiently, creatively and effectively.

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* Phase 1 of the StatVentures Supply Chain Challenge
* The Hollerith Machine
* The November 17 virtual information session





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