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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Margo J., 1945-
Other Authors: Fienberg, Stephen E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of the Census.
Geschichte
Methode
Volkszählung
Census undercounts.
Methodology.
Methodologie.
Histoire.
Recensements de population.
Methodes statistiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Recensement > Sous-estimations > États-Unis > Histoire.
Census undercounts > United States > History.
USA
United States.
Etats-Unis d'Amerique.
États-Unis > Recensement > Methodologie > Histoire.
United States > Methodology > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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