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First Published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Only available from the TSO's on-demand publishing service (1999). This is based on the previous census work "Making sense of the census" (PRO handbook no. 23), but contains more interpretative material and several new chapters on using the census returns in historical research
Previous edition, entitled Census: the expert guide by National Archives Kew, Richmond Surrey, UK, 2008.
Examines how states pigeon-hole people within categories of race, ethnicity and language.
'CENSUS is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas A father and son who are census takers journey across a nameless country from the town of A to the town of Z in the wake of the father's fatal diagnosis. Knowing that his time is menacingly short, the father takes his son, who requires close and constant adult guidance, on this trip of indefinite length. Their feelings for each other are challenged and bolstered as they move in and out of a variety of homes, meeting a variety of different people. Census is about the ways in which people react to the son's condition, to the son as a person in the world. It is about discrimination and acceptance, kindness and art, education and love. It is a profoundly moving novel, glowing with wisdom and grace, roaring with a desire to change the world.