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From Appearance to Identity: How Census Data Collection Changed Race in America
Publicizing the release of the 1940 U.S. Census data, LIFE magazine released photographs of Census enumerators collecting data from household members. Yep, Census enumerators. For almost 200 years, the U.S. counted people and recorded information about them in person, by sending out a representative of the U.S. government to evaluate them directly.
It wasn’t until 1980 that the government decided to collect Census data by mail-in survey.
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The Census Department Just Released Some Shameful New Data About Poverty In America
The Census Bureau data is out on 2010, and it confirmed the recession's deep impact on Americans.From the report: Household income dropped under $50,000 since 2009 to $49,445 46.2 million people were under poverty in 2010, up from 4... Read Post
222 years of the U.S. Census: paper to punch cards, UNIVAC to CD-ROM … to web?
The U.S. Census Bureau has released an infographic in honor of Independence Day. The interesting part from a Silicon Valley perspective? The technology used to collect and analyze the data. The first census was taken in 1790 with pa... Read Post
From Appearance to Identity: How Census Data Collection Changed Race in America
For the last week of December, we’re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2012. Originally cross-posted at Global Policy TV. Publicizing the release of the 1940 U.S. Census data, LIFE magazine released photographs of Census en... Read Post