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 ...

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.

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 ...

Two major Jewish organizations today announced that they had voiced strong opposition to the projected inclusion of a question on religious belief or affiliation in the 1960 Federal population census.

Reading surpassed Erie as Pennsylvania’s fourth most-populous city in 2020, according to census data released Thursday. The city has a population of 95,112, the highest it’s been since the 1960 Census ...

Census figures over the years have been a mixed bag for cities in St. Francis County. Going back to 1940, some towns have shown growth, some have gone up and down, and some now actually have fewer ...

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 ...