SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate over the citizenship question is just the latest controversy that has surrounded the questionnaire since it began in 1790. That first census only asked if respondents were ...

How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1790, The first United States Census began as required by the United States Constitution. Thomas Jefferson supervised the first Census. A little under 4 million people were ...

On Aug. 1, 1790 — 235 years ago Friday — the first Constitutionally-mandated U.S. Census was completed. While those of us who love data enjoy poring over the results of each decade’s census, the ...

At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. U.S. Bureau of the Census. S.N.D. North, director. Roster of heads of families in 1790, so far as can be shown from records of the Census office.

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

There were 3,929,214 people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to ...

OSAGE COUNTY, Okla. — The United States conducted its first census in 1790, followed by a new one every decade since. While it doesn’t happen again until 2030, a new, different kind of census just ...