census-taking

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Nearly half of today’s identified colonies were discovered in the last 15 years by Fretwell, who pioneered the science of penguin census-taking by satellite.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

“After 200 years of census-taking and 30 census directors, I was the 31st director and the first woman, so that heightened my visibility a little,” she said in a 1993 oral history for the bureau.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

The 2020 census streamlined that process by moving most of the form-filling from cumbersome paper surveys to the internet, and equipping census workers with iPhones and census-taking apps instead of clipboards and paper forms.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2022

In April, 2020 Census state population totals showed the United States grew by just 7.4 percent in the past decade, more slowly than any decade except the 1930s since census-taking started in 1790.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

"That is about as far back, I should think, as any one could go, in the way of census-taking," the boy said.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis