Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to clarify the murky statistics, the Census Bureau is making a major change in family categories when its decennial count begins in April. For the first time, couples living together will have the option to designate themselves "unmarried partners." The bureau has not yet said whether it will get explicit about the precise sexual and emotional relationship that distinguishes "unmarried partners" from another category in the survey, "housemates-roomma tes." (Those who have to ask can perhaps be assumed to be merely roommates...
...hoping that we will get at the true unmarried-couple situation where there is intimacy between partners," says Arlene Saluter, who studies marriage and family composition for the Census Bureau, "but it will depend on how people view the question...
ACCORDING to the most recent census, Blacks constituted 10.9 percent of the city's population in 1980--slightly less than one-ninth...
...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...
...time he did so on Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...