Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobless checkup, the Census Bureau does not try to find out how many of the jobless are such new workers, how many actually lost their jobs. The census takers only ask: "Are you looking for work?" And everyone who is "looking for work," no matter how lackadaisically, is counted as a member of the labor force. Thus, as the size of the labor force increases, the number of jobless can also increase, as happened last month, even when the number of employed takes a big jump. Economists would like the Census Bureau to add more questions to separate the laid...
...electronic innards of the Census Bureau's Univac computer whirred last week, and out popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But word seeped out that the total showed no significant change from the mid-February level of 5,173,000. The hoped-for seasonal improvement was missing, but at least partly to blame for this disappointment was March's wintry weather, which delayed the spring thaw in farming and construction. Pointing...
Straight-faced from the U.S. Census Bureau last week came some provocative statistics on the relationship between money and marriage. Among nonfarm men aged 35 to 64, reported the bureau, 96.4% of those earning $6,000 or more a year are married. Among those earning less than $2,000 a year, only 71% are married. Two percent of the $6,000-plus group are single, said the report, and 1.6% are widowed or divorced. In the $2,000-minus class, 18.4% are single, 10.6% are widowed or divorced...
...Census Bureau's cautious conclusion: men with better-than-average income "have the best chances of being selected as marriage partners"&$151;and, presumably, of maintaining the partnership...
...over all Communist nations. Last fortnight he met Khrushchev secretly at the border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake out the old Stalinists and strengthen his leadership, has bogged down into a sort of cataloguing census. The blighting bureaucrats Gomulka hoped to get rid of have clung like leeches to their party membership while the workers who were supposed to be the base of the new party have streamed out. Disenchanted intellectuals by the dozen have torn up their party cards. Of the 14,000 students...