1940 CENSUS — Part 3 | The Archive Project

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Script is available. Explains the purposes and values of the census and briefly relates its history. Describes the responsibility of enumerators and dramatizes one's experience with a woman reluctant to answer his questions. Editors, punch card machine operators, and statisticians work at compiling reports. Director William L. Austin speaks on enumerator's abilities.

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Records of the Bureau of the Census

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Moving Images Relating to the Taking of the Census

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1940-01-01

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3:34

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