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  • Every census-taker covers about 80 to 100 households, where about 90 percent have to answer 18 questions about home ownership, jobs and family members, said Cai Jun, an official with the Beijing census committee.

    China Census Begins; 6 Million People To Go Door-To-Door AP 2010

  • His surname changes to Peyten and then Peyton, which is the vagary of the census-taker, not John.

    John 2010

  • A census-taker came up the hill 120 years ago this week to count people on the Sandy Lodge estate.

    Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

  • His surname changes to Peyten and then Peyton, which is the vagary of the census-taker, not John.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • What I know from past African-American genealogy research is that former slaves often don't know their precise age, or even if they do, they will nevertheless agree with whatever the white male census-taker guesses about them.

    John 2010

  • 'I am the census-taker Time,' I boomed in sepulchral tones.

    Local Color 2010

  • Every census-taker covers about 80 to 100 households, where about 90 percent have to answer 18 questions about home ownership, jobs and family members, said Cai Jun, an official with the Beijing census committee.

    China Census Begins; 6 Million People To Go Door-To-Door AP 2010

  • What I know from past African-American genealogy research is that former slaves often don't know their precise age, or even if they do, they will nevertheless agree with whatever the white male census-taker guesses about them.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • I find it bizarre that people think nothing of sharing personal information with the salesclerk who sold them a toaster, but they get all antsy when a census-taker asks their name.

    For the 2010 Census, knocking on America's doors 2010

  • Also, handwritten censuses are often at the mercy of the spelling ability of the census-taker involved--and that's when other issues, such as innumeracy, aren't also raising their unlovely heads.

    Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

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