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The Census Bureau's main mission is to count every resident of the United States. This video showcases the enormous tasks the enumerators faced and highlights the methods they used in order to ensure a complete and accurate count in 1940.
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1960 - The Big Count
1930 - The Story of the Census
Plato, Mo. Celebrates Recognition as the 2010 Census U.S. Center of Population
1940 - The 1940 Census of Population
1980 Census
1990 Census
Census 2000
2010 Census
1810 Census - A Nation on the Verge of War
1790 Census: A young nation takes its first census
1840 Census: A maturing nation
1920 Census: A nation in transition
