Who counts? : the politics of census-taking in contemporary America
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Who counts? : the politics of census-taking in contemporary America
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Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg.
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Publication Information:
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1999.
Physical Description:
x, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780871542564
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.
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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.