nfortunate example of Haiti. They don’t have the wireless – they don’t have the internet connections at all. They don’t have mail right now. The mail system has broken down. You want to do a census in Haiti right now, you’d have to go door to door. So there are many differences. We try to assist other countries. We have – countries come here to observe us. Most of them are amazed by the amount of money we spend on advertising and try to learn from our experiences there. So in some ways we’re a leader, in some ways we may be lagging behind. I’ve given you, sort of – we’re a leader in the advertising, the partnership, the outreach efforts. We’re sort of lagging behind on the internet use. QUESTION:
Nickolay Zimin. (Inaudible) what is the total budget of the current census?MR. WEINBERG:
The 10-year – no, but we don’t think of it as a single year – I can give you those figures, but over the 10-year period of – well, it’s more than a 10-year period. I guess a 12-year period of 2001 through 2013, it’s 14 and a half billion dollars is what we estimate for all the parts of the census, including the American Communities Survey I mentioned. That’s about 1.8, $2 billion of that. We spent about a half a billion dollars on aligning all of our roads with a GPS system so that they’re now in the right place. That was about half a billion. And then the rest, about $12.3 billion over that 10-year cycle – sorry, 13-year cycle is 12.3 billion for the short form census itself.QUESTION:
But you cannot (inaudible) the particular – the budget for April 1st
Oh, for this year alone, for 2010, we’ll be spending about 7 and a half billion dollars just this year on the census. So this is clearly – we spent about 85 percent of the total in just 9 and 10. That’s – it’s hiring people. It’s nice because we’re in a recession. We can give people, a lot of people, jobs, even if they’re just temporary jobs. But it’s really hiring one and a half – almost one and a half million people. That costs money. We also pay them for training. While they’re being trained, we pay them. We pay them for mileage, because we ask them to use their own cars. We pay them for that. And we obviously give them the materials; the training manuals, the forms, the pencils. It’s an amazing – we have a facility in Indiana, Jeffersonville, Indiana, our national processing center. And they have this amazing facility they built to assemble these kits that go to the enumerators. You know, it’s like an assembly line. This box rolls down, you put in two pencils, you put in a pencil sharpener, you put in a box of paperclips, you put in this and that, and at the end it’s packaged up and it’s put aside and then shipped out to all of these 494 local census offices who then ship them out to the trainings. We will have about 40,000 training sites that are open on April – what is it – 26th
, I think. We’ll have 40,000 training sites around the country with training going on. QUESTION:
Dagmar Benesova. You mentioned also the jobs. It’s creating new jobs. Do you have some survey or estimate how many new jobs will be created this year for April 1st
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There was a study by the Commerce Department, and I’m sure that Miriam that can get ahold of it – it’s on the website – that estimated that we might reduce unemployment by as much as half a percentage point during that period. But there was a very careful study done, and you can take a look at it. That’s just my recollection.QUESTION:
And just – thank you. And just for verification, as far as 13-year period, there will be 14.5 billion dollars, like, the budget? And this year it will be spending 7.5 billion dollars.MR. WEINBERG:
Approximately, yes. That’s right. Of that 14 and a half billion for the 13-year period, we’re spending 7 and a half billion this year alone.QUESTION:
Okay. Thank you very much.QUESTION:
Jane Morse. And that’s to count 309 million people.MR. WEINBERG:
Right. Well, it’s actually a little more than that. Because the 309 million is our estimate for just the U.S. and we have to add in Puerto Rico and all the island areas.