Joseph Adna Hill

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Joseph Adna Hill (1860–1938) was an American statistician, born at Stewartstown, New Hampshire; he graduated from Harvard University in 1885 and from the University of Halle (Ph.D.) in 1892. He published The English Income Tax with Special Reference to Administration and Method of Assessment (1899).

In 1898 he took on statistical work for the United States Census Bureau, of which he became chief statistician in 1909. In this connection he had charge of census reports on child labor, illiteracy, marriage and divorce, women at work, and a report for the Immigration Commission on occupations of immigrants. He was the author of many census reports on child labor, the insane, divorce, and kindred subjects. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Census in 1921.