census
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He was writing about census rolls and cadastral maps.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Carolyn Carlson, Data-Clear’s president and founder, said she provided nationwide voting data to the bureau that year as part of a project to try and prevent an undercount of minority voters in the 2030 census.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Making things even harder is the lack of an up-to-date census in Venezuela.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
That decade saw fewer competitive House races before new maps created more battleground areas in 2010 and 2020, the result of regular redistricting that occurs every decade after the U.S. census.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
As a former educator, Garfield decried the nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census asking if a person could read and write.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Between the censuses of 2010 and 2020, the number of Americans reporting that they belonged to more than one race jumped by 276%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
At 2.6%, it’s a slight gain over the 2.1% recorded in the 1990, 2000 and 2010 U.S. censuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Now experts from genealogy firm Findmypast have pored over censuses and newspaper archives to uncover the story of the workers who left the intriguing time capsule.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
To our knowledge that had never happened between two consecutive censuses.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
His Cange census allowed him to begin building files and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well his system was working.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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