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Police search a parking garage on the U.S. Census Bureau headquarters campus Thursday for an armed man who, according to a fire official, shot a security guard at a gate to the facility in Suitland, Md. (Associated Press)

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, tabulators in Washington record the information from the more than 120,000 enumerators who gathered data for the 1940 U.S. Census. The days of the census taker with a clipboard in hand may be numbered. Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is testing digital means of counting Americans this year, from asking people to fill out their forms on the Internet instead of through the mail to giving their employees smartphones instead of paper to complete their counts. (AP Photo/National Archives and Records Administration)

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U.S. Census Bureau Director John Thompson, left, looks on as North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple shows him one of the charts illustrating large growth in North Dakota counties during a news conference Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. Thompson says the agency is up to the challenge of counting North Dakota's exploding population. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary)

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A new mobile app from the U.S. Census Bureau provides real-time updates of 16 key economic indicators from federal agencies and offices. (Census.gov)

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** FILE ** U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves announces results of the 2010 census at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)