Saturday, October 31st, 2009
By Rahul Gaitonde, Reporter, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, October 30, 2009 – At a Friday workshop that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration held on data collection and the broadband stimulus, NTIA announced that the agency will be collecting large amounts of data through the Census Bureau that they would like to make more broadly available.
Researchers and other government agencies will also be using the data collected to create new programs and create predictive models, agency officials said.
In addition to gathering data from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program applications and from maps funded by the broadband stimulus program, NTIA has been able to work with the Census Bureau to add questions to the Current Population Survey as a supplement.
The Current Population Survey is one of the largest national surveys conducted by the Census Bureau in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The following five questions are going to be asked:
- Do you/does anyone in this household use the Internet at any location?
- Who is that?
- Do you/does anyone in this household connect to the Internet from home?
- Do you currently access the Internet at home using dial-up or broadband?
- What is the main reason that you do not have high-speed Internet access at home?
At the event...
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