This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the Census traces the making of the Modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance.
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It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe.
In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census.
This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the Census traces the making of the Modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance