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Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Prologue -- Chapter 2. The History of the U.S. Census and the Undercount -- Chapter 3. The Undercount and the 1970 and 1980 Censuses -- Chapter 4. Dual-Systems Estimation and Other Methods for Undercount Correction -- Chapter 5. New for 1990: Implementing the New Methods in a Census Context -- Chapter 6. Counting the Population in 1990 -- Chapter 7. Out of the Limelight and into the Courtroom -- Chapter 8. The Measurement of Race and Ethnicity and the Census Undercount: A Controversy That Wasn't -- Chapter 9. Toward Census 2000

This article provides an overview of one major platform of the federal statistical system, the census. It briefly describes the origin and structure of the current diverse and decentralized federal statistical system and then describes the place of the census and the Census Bureau in the system. It treats the census in the context of the demographic and political history of the nation and discusses how the demographic and political history of the nation both has fostered and complicated the development of the system.

This article provides an overview of one major platform of the federal statistical system, the census. It briefly describes the origin and structure of the current diverse and decentralized federal statistical system and then describes the place of the census and the Census Bureau in the system. It treats the census in the context of the demographic and political history of the nation and discusses how the demographic and political history of the nation both has fostered and complicated the development of the system. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

Visual and oral, video and audio evidence are brought to bear to examine the history of the U.S. census and the practice of social science history. The article explores how artists have appropriated and depicted census taking in America and how census takers used "artistic" forms of evidence to advertise and promote the census and explicate census results to the public. The article also suggests how social science historians have understood and used the new electronic environment of the Internet and the World Wide Web to present their data and findings.

Questions accuracy of the data; US. Provides principles which may be used to judge quality and adequacy.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, including the undercount controversies, the arrival of the American Community Survey, and innovations of the digital age. Margo J. Anderson's scholarly text effectively bridges the fields of history and public policy, demonstrating how the census both reflects the country's extraordinary demographic character and constitutes an influential tool for policy making. Her book is essential reading for all those who use census data, historical or current, in their studies or work.--