Research Catalog

Title

Who counts? : the politics of census-taking in contemporary America / Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg.

Author

Anderson, Margo J., 1945-

Publication

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fienberg, Stephen E.

Description

x, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 discussion of the proposed census design for 2000, as well as the implications of population counts on the composition and size of Congress. This volume reveals in extraordinary detail the interplay of law, politics, and science that propel the ongoing census debate, a debate whose outcome will have tremendous impact on the distribution of political power and economic resources among the nation's communities."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• United States. Bureau of the Census
• Census undercounts > United States > History
• United States > Census > History

Genre/Form

• census records.
• History
• Census data
• Données de recensement.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0871542560

LCCN

^^^99025035^

OCLC

41002856

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library