Genealogists in search of their family history have reaped great rewards from census records being digitized and made available online on websites like Ancestry.com.
In the future, Americans will have the option to respond to a ‘digital’ enumerator – the Internet.
According to CBS News “For the first time, the Census Bureau is giving U.S. households a chance to respond to government surveys over the Internet, part of a bid to save costs and boost sagging response rates in a digital age.”
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