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A hundred years after it was first collected, the 1921 census of england and wales opens up to the public for the first time today. it paints a picture of the lives of more than 38 million people in the years after the first world war including where they lived, where they worked and where they were born. sanchia berg reports. 100 years ago, women outnumbered men by almost 2 million in england and wales. so many young men had died in the first world war, many were unlikely to find husbands. the ...

Administration tried to influence the way people count the immigration status. do we consider these results to be reliable again this year before we go? >> the census officials say as reliable as we get. they are proud of these numbers. we know that citizenship question definitely scared a lot of hispanic recruiters away from filling out the census forms. at the end of the day, this is the only count, we get this decade. so. thats what we got. >> well have to go with who we got then, hope we don...

The clock is ticking down. were in the second half of the fourth quarter and you know congress really needs to make this a priority. the biden white house needs to make it a priority. >> before i have to let you go, how reliable are this data. the mayor of detroit says it was down as much as 10%. he is planning legal action. you know the trump administration tried to influence the way people count the immigration status. do we consider these results to be reliable again this year before we go? >...

So it could contribute to an undercount even without having the census question on the document. >> sure. even people now are already skittish. i know for a fact in my district, people are worried, quite frankly. once this proposal to put this question on the census forms came forward, people got worried. theyre afraid right now. and so, yes, the chilling effect is happening as we speak. and so its going to be up to us to try to make sure we communicate the realities of what the protections are ...

Conversation. there may be some possibilities. every time you think you made progress, it doesnt necessarily happen. we are having conversations about it. >> the census question about executive order? >> i dont know. he has an injunction. he just has to overcome. its an injunction against putting citizenship on the ballot. we have been printing the census forms. june 30th was the deadline. were printing the forms. we fully expect the census to go forward. the presidents effort to put the citizen...

Possibilities. but every time you think youve made progress, then it doesnt necessarily happen. but we are having conversations about it, yeah. >> reporter: can the president do a census question by executive order? >> well, i dont know. theres an injunction that he just has to overcome. its an injunction against putting citizenship on the ballot. we have been printing the census forms. june 30th was the deadline. so were printing the forms. we fully expect the census to go forward. the presiden...

Announce something in his fight to get the so-called citizenship question onto the census. it does appear he is simply going to ask the commerce department to continue to do what it does. an administration source tells nbc news that the president is going to direct his administration to get that citizenship data through other ways, which they already do. we have no that what that means. hes actually going to announce that in a minute. because the administration might be thinking that it wins pol...

Isnt that what the census is after all? trying to get an accurate portrait of america. >> it is. you said something that struck me. the fact that a lot of people dont tell the truth on some of the census forms. a lot of people dont. im not so sure if the citizenship question was on there if someone is here illegally, probably not going to check that box. >> max? >> yeah, it shows the cynicism of the process. talk about the swamp. were seeing the politics is the reason for this and the presidents...

Executive order or confused whether it is a presidential memorandum. so the details theyre holding back at this point saying they dont want to get ahead of the president who announced on twitter and has told us as reporters interacting with him over several days this was the direction he was headed. this would in a broad stroke add legal authority to the commerce department to include a citizenship option, one of the different options would be that is something added on because the census forms ...

Sure that the count in the census is reduced, targeting, of course, people of color, intimidating and trying to scare people of color from filling out the proper census forms. i think theyre doing this for political reasons. we have redistricting coming up. and of course they want fewer people who would more than likely vote as democrats. so i think from day one, thats been their motivation. and i think its really an attack on our democracy. its an attack on our constitution. and this president ...