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unemployment in each State, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The respective governors of Guam, Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Canal Zone shall, in the same year, take censuses of such islands and reservation in accordance with plans prescribed or approved by the Secretary. § 142. Housing; scope of inquiries; territory included; supplementary statistics The Secretary shall take a census of housing in each State, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Alaska, in the year 1960 and every ten years thereafter in conjunction with, at the same time, and as a part of the population inquiry of the decennial census provided for in section 141 of this title in order to provide information concerning the number, characteristics (including utilities and equipment), and geographical distribution of dwelling units in the United States. The Secretary may collect such supplementary statistics (either in advance of or after the taking of such census) as are necessary to the completion of such census. § 143. Decennial census period; completion of reports upon inquiries (a) The period of three years beginning the 1st day of January in the year 1960 and every tenth year thereafter shall be known as the decennial census period, and, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the reports upon the inquiries provided for in sections 141 and 142 of this title shall be completed within such period, (b) The tabulation of total population by States as required for the apportionment of Representatives shall be completed within eight months from the beginning of the enumeration and reported by the Secretary to the President of the United States. § 144. Restriction on inquiries The censuses provided for by sections 141 and 142 of this title shall be restricted to inquiries relating to population, to agriculture, to irrigation, to drainage, to unemployment, and to housing. § 145. Commencement of inquiries as to population, agriculture, and housing; time for completion (a) The census of the population and of agriculture and of housing required by sections 141 and 142 of this title shall be taken as of the 1st day of April, and each enumerator shall commence the enumeration of his district on the day following thereafter unless the Secretary changes the date of commencement of the enumeration in such district by reason of climatic or other conditions which would materially interfere with the proper conduct of the work; but in any event, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each enumerator shall prepare the returns hereinbefore required to be made and forward the same to the supervisor of his district within thirty days from the commencement of the enumeration of his district. (b) I n any city having two thousand five hundred inhabitants or more under the preceding census the enumeration of the population shall be completed within two weeks from the commencement thereof. § 146. Mid-decade censuses of agriculture; exclusion of certain areas; preliminary statistics (a) The Secretary shall take, beginning in the month of October, 1954, and in the same month of every tenth year thereafter, a census
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