The article uses the first population census of postcolonial Ghana to analyze the relationship between statistics and the process of imagining the nation-state. In contrast with much historical and ...

The 1960 U.S. census of population will not include an inquiry on religion. This decision was announced today by director Robert W. Burgeon of the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce.

A census enumerator has to know more than just how to count — she has to be a bit of a diplomat, too. Some people just don't like to stand up and be counted. Take it from Edward S. Zelazo, district ...

Fred Kleiboeker’s corn-and-soybean farm, 6½ miles northwest of Centralia, looks much like the rest of the crop land in Illinois’ flat, picture-book farm belt. But it is now acreage with a difference.

The roll call of the nation’s great cities is changing dramatically, 1960 census figures proved last week. Such aging centers as New York, Chicago and Detroit are fighting to keep their rank while ...

Six drum groups and 55 dancers from across the Midwest participating in a powwow. It is the first such event sponsored by the Native American Center of SE Minnesota. Several hundred Rochester-area ...

Dorothy Day Hospitality House is only 1 year old but has outgrown it quarters at 1431 Second St. S.W. The temporary shelter program will move to "three times the space" at 420 Fifth Ave. S.W. The ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The U.S. Constitution requires that ...

A briefcase of a census taker in Winter Park, Fla., on Aug. 11. (John Raoux/AP) Rosemary Armao’s excellent Sept. 17 op-ed on being a census enumerator, “My life as a census enumerator: M&M’s, dogs and ...