After a 72-year wait required by law, the National Archives has released individual records from the 1940 Census, opening a gold mine for people researching their family histories. But the 1940 Census ...

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China has started its fourth one-percent national sample census, covering a population of about 14 million. The census takers are to be equipped with a personal digital assistant or PDA for the first ...

We describe methods used to create a new Census data base that can be used to study comparability of industry and occupation classification systems. This project represents the most extensive ...

Ahead of the Economic Census 2011, a sample survey would be conducted in Maharastra, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram from next week, officials said in Aizawl on Sunday. Ahead of the Economic ...

Education has become an increasingly valuable ticket to upward mobility for everyone, with the payoff at least as large for minority workers as for white employees but still greater for men than women ...

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