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...punch cards and counting machines, says Black, were provided to Hitler's government as early as 1933, and were probably used in the Nazis' first official census that year. The technology came in handy again in 1939 when the government conducted another census, this time with the explicit goal of identifying and locating German Jews - and finally, Black alleges, in tracking records at Nazi concentration camps...
Sources: CDC, IKEA, National Confectioners Association, Bureau of the Census "Facts for Features," White House Drug Policy Office
...Unemployment is a census figure - it counts people. A person counts as "employed" if they have at least one job. But many people have two or three jobs. Payroll growth is a measure of how many total jobs there are, so it's a good indication of what companies are thinking and doing. If they're adding jobs, it bodes well for the economy. That's actually the number that the financial markets look to as an indicator, more so than unemployment...
...Number of residents by which Utah fell short of qualifying for a fourth congressional seat in the 2000 Census...
...Number of Utahans serving as Mormon missionaries overseas. The state is suing the Census Bureau for not including the missionaries in the count...