Sentences with phrase «census taker»

You could probably write an essay on how Nicolas Roeg's films depict Australia and Australians, from the two census takers in 1986's Castaway to Bryan Brown as an existentialist masseuse in 1995's Full Body Massage.

The theory behind it is that if you can demonstrate on exams that you know and can do the «equivalent» of what you would have had to do for a regular diploma, you deserve a certificate that should be accepted — by colleges and employers, as well as census takers — as equivalent to such a diploma.

Would my minilecture on the origin and development of the Bible convince the religious census takers who come to my door?

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.

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But she strayed briefly from a largely upbeat outlook to level harsh attacks against census takers and the possibility of hydrofracking near the city's watershed — the controversial natural gas - extraction method.

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.

That innovation kept lines for vaccines moving briskly, Ivers said, because census takers already had recorded typical registration information — such as name and address — and only had to scan a bar code on the card to retrieve it, which was done with standard tablet computers.

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.

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.

I have not yet perfected a set of answers for all the religious census taker's questions, but my standard response to the query «Brother, are you saved?»

To expose El Gordo's greed, census takers from the Acolhua - Aztecs, a subset of the larger Aztec group, set out to count their own numbers in the mid-1500s and tally the extent of their farmland and hence their tax burden.

High self - response rates are the Holy Grail for census takers.

I don't think that prisoners are filling out census forms or having a personal visitation by a census taker.

The census takers, in what is by far the largest effort of its kind, identified and plotted the locations of trees in six tropical rainforests.

At that point, the census taker will leave information if no one is home, giving residents an option to respond through the internet or telephone, but also letting residents know that the census taker will return otherwise.

He even says some best lines like «Quid Pro Quo» and the one I love is» A census taker once tried to test me, I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti» then he started to tongue noises.

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

Edward V. Brown, the census taker, moved slowly down North Prince Street, knocking on each and every door in this Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York.

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.

Following two recent incidents concerning census workers endangering U.S. citizens â $ «including an attack of a disabled young woman allegedly by a census taker in Indiana and a registered sex offender using an alias to get a job as a census taker in New Jersey â $ «the U.S. Census Bureau is adopting stricter rules for the background screening of census workers for the once - in - a-decade 2010 U.S. Census.