Kenneth Prewitt Quotes (7 Quotes)

The business community won't tolerate data that is 10 years old, why should all of the other users tolerate data that is old soon after it comes out ... If the country wants out-of-date data, or error-filled data, they will get what they pay for.

It is ... a complicated, challenging task. But the alternative is to just ignore them -- is to say, 'Well, even though we didn't count them and we know they are part of the United States, since we don't know where to put them, we'll just sort of leave them off the census rolls. That strikes us as a social injustice.

The Internet is very inequitably distributed as an opportunity across American society, and because we're trying to focus on the communities that are not as well represented, we made an effort to spend our money and time where they would increase participation,

There's more information on your driver's license than on the census short form.

The census is a scientific effort. We know that a census number is an estimate. It's not the truth,

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

And then we have attitudinal issues. We have people who are skeptical, indifferent, apathetic, don't want to cooperate. And we have people who are outright hostile and will refuse to be counted, ... So there is no way we will get to 100 percent. Our best estimate right now is that we are going to run harder to stay in place.