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Taeuber, Conrad; and Barnes Taeuber, Irene

orig. Irene Barnes

(born June 15, 1906, Hosmer, S.D., U.S.—died Sept. 11, 1999, Nashua, N.H.) (born Dec. 25, 1906, Meadville, Mo.—died Feb. 24, 1974, Hyattsville, Md.) U.S. demographers, statisticians, and social scientists. Working for various government agencies, the couple developed a scholarly approach to the census that helped found the science of demography and made them authorities on population movements in the U.S. Their books The Changing Population of the United States (1958) and The Population of Japan (1958) are considered classics in demography.

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