"Learning About Population"
Introduction Population trends are important to many groups. Politicians, for example, closely watch population shifts to see how voting patterns may change. Community leaders are interested because increases or decreases in local population impact services such as sanitation, education, crime prevention, and fire protection. Businesses use census data to help determine new plant locations, products and services, and sales territories.
Destination Title: The U.S. Census Bureau's IDB
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Directions For this activity, begin at the U.S. Census Bureau's International Database Web site.
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