United States Census Bureau: Custom Mobile Solution

The U.S. Census Bureau conducts demographic and economic studies and strengthens statistical development around the world through technical assistance, training, and software products. When it needed a mobile solution for its field staff, it turned to Accenture.

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The U.S. Census Bureau wanted a mobile solution for use by the census field staff to successfully conduct operations necessary for the 2010 Census.

Accenture developed a custom-built Windows Mobile devices—with advanced security, biometric authentication and secure data transfer—running custom applications.

In delivering this custom-built Windows Mobile device application, Accenture achieved the following for the U.S. Census Bureau:

• Rapid rollout—just 19 days—to more than 100,000 mobile users aged 18-85.
  
  
• Ultimately used by the 145,000-person field force conducting the 2010 U.S. Census.
  
  
• Minimal training necessary due to the highly intuitive user interface.
  
  
• Increased field operations speed by 25 percent.
  
  
• Cut data-collection errors by more than 90 percent.
  
  

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