Moscow, Jan. /15.
An eight-day census of the Soviet Union. involving a population of 200,000,000 people, will begin on January 17.
Census takers will number 500,000, the majority of whom, under 38 years of age, have been under careful training for several months in order to obtain answers to 15 questions indicative of the changes which have taken place since the Revolution, The census is a o aimed at recording. new social and, occupational progress since the first Five-Year Plan, and of obtaining an accurate unate of the hundreds of Minori-
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