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How prisoners, soldiers and Mormon missionaries make the census more complicated

  • Written by Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How prisoners, soldiers and Mormon missionaries make the census more complicatedCounting Americans is a complicated process.Tada Images/Shutterstock.com

The U.S. census is the most democratic and inclusive activity we do as a country.

For demographers like myself, this once-a-decade count serves as the backbone of virtually every product that we use to understand who Americans are, how they’ve changed and what this...

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