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Bureau of the Census

American  

noun

U.S. Government.
  1. the division of the Department of Commerce that gathers, tabulates, and correlates census statistics.


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Bureau of the Census reported that nearly 700,000 Americans diedin 1908.

From Slate Oct. 25, 2016

According to the Bureau of the Census, between Reconstruction and 1910, the literacy rate among Southern blacks climbed from 20% to 70%.

From Time Magazine Archive

IT was only 20 years ago that the world's first commercially sold computer, a Univac Model I, was installed at the Bureau of the Census in Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Bureau of the Census coldly replied that it was not in error, pointed out that it uses a different computing method, and that it includes several types of employment not covered by BLS.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bosanquet: The Family, part I. "Report on Marriage and Divorce, 1906," Bureau of the Census, I, pages 224-226.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch

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