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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, 99.9% of enterprises that are born and buried each year are small firms.

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

While arguments about agricultural polity were being assembled and polished for the coming battle on Capitol Hill, the Bureau of the Census last week came forward with some hard facts about U.S. farms and farmers.

From Time Magazine Archive

No library can afford to be without the publications of the Bureau of the Census.

From Government Documents in Small Libraries Reprinted from Report of Board of Library Commissioners of Ohio for the Year ending November 15, 1909. by Reeder, Charles Wells

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