Population count to help city recover

The most extensive effort yet to count the elusive post-Katrina population began last week with workers hanging surveys on doorknobs in Metairie. It's the first large-scale attempt to go door to door counting residents, a strategy designed to provide a clearer picture of who now lives in the New Orleans area than the common measures used so far: analyzing postal change of address forms, electricity hookups and school enrollment, and conducting telephone surveys.

from the Times Picayune