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Automation and Federal Statistical Surveys
Pages 78-82

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... AUTOMATION AND FEDERAL STATISTICAL SURVEYS Bob Groves CORIC: Blat, right now, bridging these two perspectives, we aslced Bob Groves who is the director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan to comment on the two presentations.
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From page 79...
... I think that's really important. The federal government spends about $3 billion a year in statistical activities that's not a lot of money, if you think about comparable commercial sectors.
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From page 80...
... But these divisions of labor are very slow in changing, and much slower in changing than a commercial organization because the impact of external environmental changes is buffered by organizational requirements. Finally, a distinct aspect of this that Pat touched on is that there is a devotion to providing data back to the people.
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... " So my friend at CBS News is a survey researcher. And Pat is a survey researcher.
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From page 82...
... GROVES: My third meeting lilce this one was a wonderful day spent in Palo Alto, overlooking the ocean as I recall, with a set of software engineers for expert systems. And the question on the table was, "Why can't we develop an expert system for questionnaire construction?
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