Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From India's census takers last week came a progress report: the average Indian's life expectancy has gone up by five years since 1941, by ten years since 1931. Present life expectancy: about 32½ years for men (v. 66 for U.S. men), a little under 32 for women (v. 71½ for U.S. women...
...trouble is that the Government uses three basic methods to chart the ebb and flow of U.S. unemployment, and all three need improvement. All are limited surveys and wide open to errors of interpretation. Of the three, the most important-and most controversial-is the Census Bureau's total count of the U.S. labor force (currently about 62 million over the age of 14). The bureau first checks a tiny, carefully chosen sample of the U.S., only 25,000 households in 68 key areas. Then it mathematically projects the figures on the size of the labor force...
...England's farmers put more plant food into their lands than they take out. The result: a thriving agriculture that grows high-value crops on "manmade" soil. Maine's potato farms produce 11 times as much an acre as they did 80 years ago. In the 1950 census, Connecticut led all the states in income per acre of land in farms: Connecticut, $95.31; Iowa, $27.73; South Carolina...
...last survey was made six years ago), and home-based cats number 26.7 million. Dogs are owned by 41% of all families and cats by 29%, but the average dog-owning family has only 1.34 dogs, while cat-owners average 2.21 cats to a family. (Not included in the census were waifs, strays and pets living in stores and factories.) This year, more than 1.5 billion cans of pet food will be sold, double the output of five years...
Last week, citing these and other grim statistics as determined by the government's 1951 census, India's Census Commissioner and a top civil servant, R. A. Gopalaswami, urged his countrymen to do something about "improvident maternity." As things are now going, he estimates that India's population will soar to 520 million by 1981. "Every married couple can have a maximum of three children without creating a national problem," said Gopalaswami, "but we should realize that it is improvident on our part to permit ourselves to increase in numbers indefinitely without taking thought...