Sentences with phrase «as census takers»

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Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

It won't be long before U.S. census takers disperse around the country for the official count of Americans that takes place every 10 years as specified by the Constitution.

It takes time to cover something as large as the world's oceans, so the 2,000 - plus census takers from more than 80 countries have broken up their assignment into 17 more manageable subgroups — like coral reefs, continental shelves, and mid-ocean ridges — that should provide a good overview of what's out there.

Many statisticians had recommended that the federal government adopt the mathematical technique of sampling as the most accurate way to estimate how many people census takers were missing.

They might even act as «census takers» and go from class to class to collect the desired information.

The father, previously a doctor, signs up for a job as an unusual census taker for a secretive government bureau.

As he paddled the shoreline of the Bering Sea, the intrepid census taker turned up the Naknek River into the Naknek Lake drainage (which he renamed «Lake Walker» for his supervisor), eventually making his way overland to Katmai village on the Pacific coast side of the Alaska Peninsula.

Administered by a team of «census takers,» the Soulville Census engages black Americans from a range of geographic backgrounds in taking an alternative census which «gathers the data the 2010 US Census missed» as a means of exploring how a census can be used to illuminate or conceal important sociological shifts.