The cost of counting
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The budget for the 2011 South Africa Census was R2 billion. R700 million went to the field staff who were each… Read More
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Information overload
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The first census conducted in the United States was conducted in 1790, and contained only six questions. In contrast, the… Read More
How many people does it take to count people?
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In order to attain an accurate count of the 2020 U.S. population, a total of 500,000 temporary employees are being… Read More
155 years of counting South Africans
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The first census to be conducted in what is now South Africa was a 1865 census of the Cape of… Read More
Santa Speed
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According to the Telegraph (UK), Santa would have to travel at over 10 million km/h, or about 3,000 kilometres per… Read More
Everyone is celebrating
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Times Square, New York, hosts 1 million people each New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop. Around the world,… Read More