Word: taker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's landslide challenges the pulse-taker profession...
...census poses other problems. A report by the National Academy of Sciences notes an increase in "married women working outside the home and not so available as before to provide information to the census taker." Worries Deputy Census Director Daniel Levine-"I'm well aware of the fact that we have had Watergate, Koreagate and CIA scandals and that surveys taken outside the Census Bureau suggest that people have less and less trust in their Government...
...questionnaire by mail. About 90% will be asked to send back their completed forms; the remaining 10%, living for the most part in remote rural areas where returns in the past have been poor, will be instructed to keep their forms until they are picked up by a census taker...
...household does not mail back a questionnaire, it will be sought out by one of the census takers, called enumerators. Judging from the past, they may have trouble. The counters often run into suspicious or hostile people who slam the door in their faces or even threaten them physically. Discouraged enumerators may then indulge in what is called curbstoning, making up phony statistics. This year the enumerators will face additional problems. Since more married women are working (50%, compared with 40% in 1970), fewer will be home during the day to provide the census taker with information...