2010 census of the United States

The Twenty-third United States Census will be the next in the. The census has been conducted every 10 years, as required by the, with the previous one completed in.

Cost
The estimated in  that the cost of the census could climb to over $11 billion. In a detailed report to, it called on the to address cost and design issues.

-- partnering with, , and , , and others -- won a six-year, $500M contract to capture and standardize census data. The contract includes systems, facilities and staffing to for about a quarter of the projected $11.3B cost of the decennial census. Data collection efficiency and processing are priorities in 2010. This will be the first census to use hand-held computing devices with capability.

The project will also employ approximately one million part-time employees.