#census

I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight... ↗

— Jeremy Clarkson

#jedi-knight #religion

The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale of rank and fortune. He originated the census, a measure of the highest utility to a state destined, as Rome was, to future preeminence; for by means of its public service, in peace as well as in war, could thence forward be regularly organized on the basis of property; every man's contribution could be in proportion to his means. ↗

— Livy

#history #law #policy #political-science #science

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australians #born #census #cent #indicated

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#average #bachelor #bureau #census #degree

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#census #higher #highest #highest level #january

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#civic #distributing #does #duty #getting

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? ↗

— Andy Rooney

#census #else #get #government #help

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#asleep #census #certainly #did #direct

Hold it right there. You men from the bank?" "You Wash's boy?" "Yessir and Daddy told me I'm to shoot whoever's from the bank." "Well, we ain't from the bank young feller." "Yessir, I'm also s'posed to shoot folks serving papers." "We ain't got no papers neither." "I nicked the census man." "Now there's a good boy. ↗

— Joel Coen

#art

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #as far as #back #black #born