Research Suggests a Better, Cheaper Way to Conduct U.S. Census

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 09:20 in Biology & Nature

For more than 200 years, the federal government relied on door-to-door visits to each residence in the United States to conduct the census every 10 years. Beginning in 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau came to rely primarily on mailing surveys to households, though government employees still knock on doors of those who are unable or […]

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