1.4B / 10 years = 140M a year to hire people to go out and talk to residents and systems to collate it. I've nothing to compare that to to sanity check it but it does seem high.
1.4B / ~ 300 million is about 4.33 usd per person. That doesn't seem all that high especially if you divide that 4.33 / 10 as the census occurs every 10 years.
1.4B / ~ 300 million is about 4.33 usd per person. That doesn't seem all that high especially if you divide that 4.33 / 10 as the census occurs every 10 years.