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Examines use of statistical sampling methods to estimate the US population, methodological and political debate, apportioning seats in Congress on the basis of census data, accuracy of the census, and resolving tensions over census taking; includes opposing positions; 6 articles. Contents: The census count: who counts? how do we count? when do we count? by Lynne Billard; Using statistical sampling to estimate the U.S. population: the methodological and political debate over census 2000, by Thomas L. Nrunell; History, myth making, and statistics: a short sotry about the reapportionment of Congress and the 1990 census, by Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg; Rejoinder to Anderson and Fienberg, by Thomas L. Brunell; Partisan politics at work: sampling and the 2000 census, by Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg; Making sense to the census: it's political, by Thomas L. Brunell; How Congress does the difficult, by Sidney Waldman.