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Starting in 1940, the Census Bureau began evaluating new methods of using reduced sample sizes to obtain additional information, and by the 1960 census, had moved several questions to a separate "questionnaire form" that was only sent to a small sample of households as to reduce the burden of the main "long form".
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). ). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China in an attempt to take them from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe ...
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) focused on several ROC-held islands a few miles from the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
When he became the head statistician on the US Current Population Survey (CPS) in the early 1960’s, the area probability methods were well established. But the survey had to face new problems caused by the expanding American economy. The migration to the suburbs from cities had begun and data from the 1960 census was becoming progressively ...
Leader of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960.. The Formosa Resolution of 1955 was a joint resolution passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 29, 1955, [1] to counteract the threat of an invasion of Taiwan (Republic of China) by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The Census Bureau says it is conducting the 2024 Census Survey under the authority of Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141, 193 and 221, and that the selected recipients are required to respond.
"In essence, this money has been stolen from all of us for all these years," said an 84-year-old woman whose late husband's Social Security benefits were slashed. "It's not fair."
The phrase "Quemoy and Matsu" became part of American political language in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. During the debates, both candidates, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy , pledged to use American forces if necessary to protect Taiwan from invasion by the PRC, which the United States did not recognize as the ...