CSPAN3 Reel America The Big Count - The Story Of The U.S. Census - 1960 July 12, 2024
Narrator hello, im george stone. The big count of the population in these United States is made every 10 years. This is the time when Census Bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions such as, where were you born, how many people live in this house, how many headed how did you get to work last week and so on. , this is not the whole story. Between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. And the results of all this questioning appear as statistical tables in this fivefoot shelf of books. I dont suppos...