Thompson was confirmed in 2013 as the Census Bureau's 24th director after being nominated by President Barack Obama. He ...

India is set to include caste enumeration in its upcoming census, a practice discontinued post-independence except for SCs and STs. This decision, driven by political and social demands ...

Chicago posts 7th largest population increase in nation, part of a growth spurt that also lifted many suburbs Suburban Cook County biggest area population loser in recent years, census estimates ...

The United States Census Bureau has released a list of cities with the highest population growth. The agency tracked population growth from July 2023 to July 2024, and found that cities across the ...

Caste Census in India: Casteism has been a fixed part of India's social fabric for ages, influencing access to resources, education, and opportunities. The country's made some headway in pushing ...

A decade later in 1961, the central government asked states to conduct their own surveys and prepare state-specific lists of OBCs if they wished so. Over six decades later now and after demands ...

The Narendra Modi government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the next Census is one that is bold, transformative and commendable. Counting caste is not capitulation to identity politics.

In April, the Census released its report on registration and voting in the 2024 election. The data make it possible to look at many voter characteristics such as race and ethnicity, gender ...

The cabinet committee of political affairs (CCPA) on Wednesday decided that a caste-based enumeration will be part of the upcoming decadal census, a decision hailed by the Bharatiya Janata Party ...

The United States Census Bureau has released a list of cities with the highest population growth. The agency tracked population growth from July 2023 to July 2024, and found that cities across the ...

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has called for the immediate conduct of a national population census, describing the exercise as critical to Nigeria’s future development and long overdue.

ABUJA—The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, said yesterday in Abuja that the presidential committee on population and housing census was an ad-hoc technical body ...