Census Taking, 1980

Archive Report

Controversy Preceding April I

Effort to Prevent Undercount of Minorities

For the 20th time since the nation's beginning, it will count its people in a decennial census and try to find out where and how they live. About 90 percent of the 80 million households will receive census questionnaires by mail with instructions to return them as ...

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