Census Quotations

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

Given that the Census doesn't seem to have a clear plan, and given that it's taken about seven years to develop a new survey historically, I don't see that it will take only two years to develop something better than we have now.

Given what happened to the Central Coast, it's hard to support the current system, but since the last census 3.6 million people have been added. And to turn over the most diverse state in the union to a panel of retired judges, which is a very undiverse group ... I'd support an independent commission, or an independent commission with legislative review, or some other kind of hybrid.

If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,

Census 2000 did not do a good job with group quarters, but they have a major impact, particularly in small towns.

China's currency policy is not directly linked to the census result. China will not change the currency policy frequently, and will act prudently.

Pine Ridge is simply the poorest census tract in the nation, ... The main business on the reservation is a gas station. All of the housing is HUD housing, Indian housing, which is in many cases deplorable.

People are counted where they're living when the Census is taken. Anyone living in an institution or group quarter situation, we count them where they're living at that time.

I'm sure, before the Census begins, we make cities aware of rules like that.

It is ... a complicated, challenging task. But the alternative is to just ignore them -- is to say, 'Well, even though we didn't count them and we know they are part of the United States, since we don't know where to put them, we'll just sort of leave them off the census rolls. That strikes us as a social injustice.

It appears that you (Bracken County) may be involved in the American Community Survey, which is part of the Census Bureau's effort to streamline and improve the census, and will replace the long form in 2010 and provide communities a vibrant, moving picture every year instead of once every 10 years. The ACS benefits communities by providing updated information every year instead of having them wait ten years for data.

We have handled numerous trauma cases from Harrison County because the emergency departments in several of the Harrison County hospitals are not open to trauma every night. We have had extremely high patient census at Ocean Springs Hospital for the last several months, including these extra trauma cases, which points out how much the beds are needed.

Today's Census reports confirm that the Bush administration's economic policies have not benefited most working families.

We recognize what everybody else does, that this is a huge, growing, influential part of our audience. You have to make your decisions based on a good business plan, and as we look at the census numbers throughout the North Bay, the growth is significant.

We are playing a very important role in the design of the 2010 Census. As a census test site, we are setting the standard for how the Census Bureau counts American Indians all over the United States.

We believe the American Community Survey is the future, not only for the census bureau, but also for local leaders, businesses and growing communities.

We paid for the Census Bureau to give us an accurate count. We don't believe that's an accurate count.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

When we benchmark, we take the hard data from the quarterly census of employment and wages. If their method is consistent, this is the first year in some time that we've shown a positive increase. . . . But it does support what we've been saying all along that the economy is booming, booming, booming.

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.

At one point, a census listed far more animals than people.

These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.

We've had as many as 69 (patients) or as little as 50. The census will fluctuate, just depending on what the needs are at the time.

We wanted a census of all the black holes and we wanted to know what they are like. We also wanted to measure how black holes have grown over the history of the Universe.

Actually, the census will confirm what the Planning Department has been projecting.

The thing we learned with large customers is one size does not fit all. Some want to run on mainframe, Unix, Linux, or Windows. It's hard to get a census of exactly what they want to run on.

North Carolina believes a challenge should be brought before the Census (Bureau).

But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth straight year of increasing poverty, following a seven-year decline, from 1993 to 2000. Shouldn't wise journalists be asking why?

That's not as big a change as it seems. Our average daily census is only 159.

As a result, the swings between March and April in the Census figures tend to be smaller than the swings in the retailers' report. Chain store results from the retailers may overstate the weakness in March.

Our definition of second homes has changed with the buyer shift toward investment property, ... In examining Census data to determine the number of investment units, we see that second homes are a much larger share than the conventional mind-set of them being mostly vacation homes.

There's more information on your driver's license than on the census short form.

They should have a laptop computer with a white sticker with the U.S. Census Bureau sticker on it, an identification badge, that is usually on a chain and a letter from the bureau.

The wealth of information in this Hubble survey, including seeing stars of all sizes in one dense place, provides an extraordinary opportunity to study star formation. Our goal is to calculate the masses and ages for these young stars so that we can map their history and get a general census of the star formation in that region. We can then sort the stars by mass and age and look for trends.

This is an especially valuable survey, because it drills down into the benefits, costs, challenges and unexpected consequences experienced by managers; much more than the census type research of employees produced to date.

Indeed, the federal government allocates about $185 billion in programs and services based on population figures provided by the Census Bureau.

In Connecticut, because of our extremes of wealth, you can't rely on census data.

I'm appalled and outraged by the intrusiveness of this questionnaire, ... It is ridiculous for the Census Bureau to ask personal questions that have nothing to do with their constitutional mandate to count the citizens of the United States.

If you look at Census Bureau statistics for the number of children who are in child care, you would expect the rate to be about 7 percent -- certainly less than 10 percent.

So far, 82 persons have been arrested and detained. Their offences include arson, grievous assault on census officials and unlawful possession of firearms.

The Census Bureau was more inclined to define people the way they defined themselves rather than impose a label.

The census data for the most part confirms that.

The census information available now is just flat out inaccurate.

The census is a scientific effort. We know that a census number is an estimate. It's not the truth,

The census is costing us right at $1 million, and all of that money we will recover, I believe, three for one in four years.

The census numbers tell us what we've known for years -- that soaring health care inflation is making health insurance unaffordable, so more folks go uninsured, and those who can afford it find their policies cover less and less. The data shows a continued deterioration in the use of employer-provided health insurance and increased reliance on Medicaid and public programs. If it had not been for more people moving into public programs, the number of uninsured would have increased another 2.3 million, the statistics show.

The Census provides highs that are too low and lows that are too high. In effect, the Census income estimates artificially reduce the gap between the wealthiest and poorest Connecticut towns.

The census shows the population is in a declining phase.

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

The cut in the export projection was a bit larger than expected, but the Census Bureau export report for December, released on Feb. 10, indicated that exports are lagging last year's pace by even more than indicated by the USDA weekly export figures.

The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.

These are just projections but I believe they're pretty close to accurate. I estimated we were near 136,000. So I would say their numbers are pretty close. But nothing is official until the next census in 2010.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, men are significantly less likely to have health insurance than women. This Web site is a needed resource that will provide men and their families with vital information so they can take better care of their health.

It's the census bureau, so we figured they would respond to statistical information. We've gotten a lot of anecdotal information from the public, and we're trying to document that as much as possible.

It's very difficult to census turkeys. It's a nut we've been trying to crack for quite a while.

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

This phenomenon cuts across all demographics. You'll find it in families both rich and poor; black, white, Asian and Hispanic; urban, suburban and rural. According to the Census Bureau, fully one-third of young men ages 22 to 34 are still living at home with their parents ? a roughly 100 percent increase in the past 20 years. No such change has occurred with regard to young women. Why?

We cannot manipulate or make changes to the records unless we are contacted by the Census Bureau.

Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.