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March 2011

The 2010 Census: the employment impact of counting the Nation

Emily Richards

The 2010 Census count marked the addition of 564,000 temporary, intermittent workers to payrolls; 2010 Census hiring masked the underlying trends in Current Employment Statistics estimates.

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