Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue-collar work is declining in magnitude and importance, and service and technical-professional work is replacing it. Levison shows how shoe-shine workers, street sweepers, janitors, mailmen, milkmen, cleaning women, typists, and department store clerks are all placed in the "clerical and sales" or "service" categories of the census, and when both occupational and standard of living factors are taken into account, "working class people" across for all least 60 per cent of all those employed--a very far cry from an economy oriented around a "technostructure" or a "post-industrial" society...
...revealed that thousands of school-age children in Boston were not enrolled in the city's public or private schools. Spurred by that report, the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund, a privately financed nonprofit agency, decided to conduct a national survey. After an analysis of 1970 census data and 6,500 personal interviews in nine states, the C.D.F. has now issued its own shocking statistic: some 2 million U.S. children from age seven to 17 are not enrolled in school...
...said that their parents could not afford to buy books or pay the required school fees. There was a wide racial and ethnic mix among the children. In the predominantly white Riverton Housing Project in Portland, Me., 11% of all school-age children were not attending school. In one census tract in New Bedford, Mass., 73% of all children of Portuguese descent were out of class. In the Northgate Housing Project in Montgomery, Ala., 27% of all 16-and 17-year-old blacks had not been in school for at least 45 days during the semester...
...federal Bureau of the Census last month named Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, to the five-member Census Advisory Committee on Population Statistics. The committee advises the census bureau and helps it gather and analyze population data...
...team encountered no political interference. Says Tachibana: "We went to tax offices and census registration bureaus, bowed to the officials, paid a modest fee for copying and came back with a treasure-house of information...