And, years later, part-time market research surveys and a stint as a census taker.

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The census taker who knocked on his door for the third time last week is also in charge of the neighborhood's family-planning committee.

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Cannon was known as the "census taker in the sky, " and developed a stellar classification system that became the standard of the Harvard Observatory.

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And most of the new jobs, 411, 000, were temporary census-taker jobs.

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