Who counts? : the politics of census-taking in contemporary America /

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"Who Counts? offers a detailed review of the preparation, implementation, and aftermath of the last three censuses. It recounts the growing criticisms of inaccuracy and undercounting, and the work to develop new enumeration strategies."--BOOK JACKET. "Who Counts? concludes with a disc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Margo J., 1945-
Otros Autores: Fienberg, Stephen E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1999.
Temas:
United States. > Bureau of the Census.
United States. > Bureau of the Census
Census undercounts > United States > History.
Recensement > Sous-estimations > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Méthodes statistiques.
Recensements de population.
Histoire.
Méthodologie.
Methodology
Census undercounts
Volkszählung
Methode
Geschichte
United States > Methodology > History.
United States > Census > Methodology > History.
États-Unis > Recensement > Méthodologie > Histoire.
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The history of the U.S. census and the undercount
  • The undercount and the 1970 and 1980 censuses
  • Dual-systems estimation and other methods for undercount correction
  • New for 1990: implementing the new methods in a census context
  • Counting the population in 1990
  • Out of the limelight and into the courtroom
  • The measurement of race and ethnicity and the census undercount: a controversy that wasn't
  • Toward census 2000
  • The saga continues.

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