Word: censuses
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...that tension means that a national census in Nigeria, like the one that is happening this week, is much more than just a routine tallying of the population. Instead, it is the equivalent of a high-stakes, national competition to see which ethnic group is bigger and which should get a larger share of oil revenues and political representation. Holding a census has been so controversial that successive governments have put it off for the past 15 years. Guesses at the population of Nigeria range from 120 million to 150 million, probably about equally split between the Muslim north...
...chief executive of the not-for-profit Kiwi Expat Association (KEA) is trying to get his fellow citizens to think of New Zealand as a "globally connected nation of 5 million people, rather than as an isolated country of 4 million people." Last week McConnell launched an online global census (www.everyonecounts.co. nz) to find out more about those missing Kiwis. "Knowing more about this community will have practical benefits, and will help us better define ourselves as a nation," he says. Since 2002, the KEA network has gathered 5,000 expats and "friends of New Zealand" to its database...
March 7 was census day for 4 million New Zealanders. While much of the talk around Auckland last week was about ethnic identity and a festival of sport, there was also bright buzz around news of a business deal. The $NZ700 million purchase by Australian media company Fairfax of local online auction site Trade Me had a number of sweet elements. Founder Sam Morgan, 30, a university dropout, was about to become one of the country's wealthiest people. Fairfax's new Sydney-based boss, David Kirk, is a former captain of the All Blacks. And if it seemed almost...
...past waves of immigration, and yet the political discourse is a bit different. Samuel Huntington had his book that said that basically there was a fifth column of people trying to take back portions of Mexico that were lost. But the reality is different. There is assimilation. The 2000 Census showed that 71% of third-generation Mexican-American immigrants speak only English. And yet even mainstream media tend to make the mistake of equating Latino with Spanish speaking. One of our columnists, Gregory Rodriguez, likes to make the point that nobody would ever think of scolding Rudy Giuliani...
While most Cambridge residents stayed indoors after a snowstorm this past January, others braved the chill to find out how many Cantabrigians were left outside in the cold.An annual census counting Cambridge’s homeless population found 36 people sleeping on the city’s streets on the night of Jan. 23, five fewer than last year’s count. Staff from the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation (CASPAR), which operates Cambridge’s only overnight emergency shelter for those under the influence of drugs and alcohol, conducted the city?...