Word: censuses
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Even so basic an economic statistic as employment is not accurately gauged on a month-to-month basis; the Census Bureau merely takes a sampling of 35,000 households uses it to estimate national figures. The only figure based on an actual count is the one showing how many have applied lor unemployment compensation. But that errs on the bright side. It shows unemployment to be 2,360,400, about 17% less than what many believe it actually...
...comparison with most of the world's developed nations, the U.S. is sparsely populated. Reported the Bureau of the Census last week: the U.S. population of about 172 million covers the 3,000,000 sq. mi. of land at the factor of 57 people per sq. mi. Libya (estimated 1955 pop. 1,105,000), with about two people for each of 679,360 sq. mi., is at the bottom of the list, and the U.S.S.R., biggest in land area (8,600,000 sq. mi.), has an estimated (1956) population of 200,200,000, or 23 people...
Gearing up for the U.S. Census Bureau's regular ten-year chore, Census Boss Robert W. Burgess announced that once again no questions on religion will be included in the 1960 census. Reason: pressure from such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Jewish Congress, Seventh-day Adventists, some Christian Science organizations, who feel (since the public is required by law to answer census questions) that by asking about religious affiliations, the Government would be violating the doctrine of separation of church and state...
...Census men are doubly puzzled by the pressure because 1) they think that statistics on religious affiliation might help the U.S. to understand itself better, and 2) in making informal population reports (where answers to questions are not mandatory) they have discovered that most people don't mind answering the question...
...Also eying the U.S. farmer last week: the Census Bureau, which reported a farm population drop of 1,861,000 in a year. Part of this "substantial" loss represented farmers voluntarily leaving the land, part was caused by cities pushing out their boundaries to include farm land. New farm population total...