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‘No clarity on when Census will be held’: Sonia Gandhi says 14 crore people deprived of NFSA benefits • Feb. 10, 2025, 7:57 AM ET (The Indian Express)
‘When the next Census comes, we will revise SC numbers… Ask Centre why it is not conducting Census’: Telangana minister on Dalit sub-quotas • Feb. 10, 2025, 12:42 AM ET (The Indian Express)
US Census Web Pages on Population Estimates Are Inaccessible • Feb. 6, 2025, 1:24 PM ET (Bloomberg)
Democrat calls firing of FBI officials ‘deeply alarming’ as some federal websites appear to go dark – as it happened • Jan. 31, 2025, 1:10 PM ET (The Guardian)

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Also Known As population census

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Conrad Taeuber
American sociologist
Irene Barnes Taeuber
American sociologist
Walker, Francis A.
Francis A. Walker
American economist