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Show Census Bureau Jumping Gun Running Tests Prior To 1950 Tabulation WASHINGTON. - Although t h e big 1950 census doesn't start until next April, the federal bureau of the census isn't waiting for the kickoff whistle to get going. Every month census bureau enumerators en-umerators visit about 25,000 households house-holds in the United States. They ask questions about the marital status and employment of members mem-bers of these households. The emplovment census on which the bureau "bases its estimate of the number of job holders and job hunters, is now rated more important impor-tant that the population count Employment Em-ployment information is valuable to the government and to private industry as an indicator of business conditions. Some householders resent the questioning as "prying into private aff iirs" A few others are scared by it in these days of agitation over Communists and charges of dis- l0Census officials say people have nothing to fear from the interviewers. interview-ers. The information is strictly con- Ses of individuals are not sent to Washington headquarters. The information is used only for corn-pi corn-pi ing the number of employed and u emploved and other statistics. Not even the FBI or internal rev-enue rev-enue colectors can obtain census nformntion for inve.tigatmn J t,x collecting purposes. Federal Jaw prohibits its use except in 1 StSomf people refuse to co-operate With enumerators or interv.cwers. However, relatively few pers.st in "using after the interviewers have shown identification cards i " h their photographs and have ! gained why the information is Sto put the questions in iPlc words and in terms wh.cr. ! re well known in the commun.tj i , I the interviewed person lives I Zers take short train I ing courses |