Sentences with phrase «for census takers»

High self - response rates are the Holy Grail for 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.

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.

According to a story in the Washington Post, the bureau's director said that the stricter rules for background screening means applicants for the job of census takers whose name, age, gender and Social Security number do not match background screening records will undergo more inquiries instead of being sent for FBI fingerprint checks.