Census Bureau Partnership Specialist Linda Marshall-Smith works at a booth set up at a Carson City festival, where she helped promote the 2020 census and recruited census takers. (Photo Courtesy of Linda Marshall-Smith)

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of student produced stories looking at the 2020 census.

This year’s census can be done over the phone, online, or on a paper form. But the fourth and final way dates all the way back to 1790 when the first census was taken: people go out to houses to help people complete the census.

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