Ebooks
Differential Undercounts in the U. S. Census by Publication Date: 2019-02-22This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as "differential undercount", by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why such undercounts occur.
What Is Your Race? by Publication Date: 2013-07-21A historical overview of the census race question--and a bold proposal for eliminating it America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy?
From the Constitution to the American Community Survey by Publication Date: 2011-01-01The Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, Second Edition updates and expands a critically-acclaimed resource to the history, politics, content, procedures, and uses of the decennial census of the American population.
Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity by Publication Date: 2015-08-27This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe characteristics of ethnic and racial groups, identify factors of social and economic integration and implement policies to redress discrimination.
Counting Heads and More by Publication Date: 1998-04-01A children's book about the history, methods, and purposes of the U.S. Census Bureau and the surveys it conducts.
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow by Publication Date: 1886Tolstoy's account of the living and social conditions of Moscow's impoverished, written after he accompanied census takers on their rounds in order to see for himself the plight of the city's poor.
Measuring America by Publication Date: 2002-10-01A history of the U.S. Census, featuring questionnaires and instructions for census takers for each Decennial Census from 1790 through 2000.
