Modernizing the U.S. Census

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Synopsis
The U.S. census, conducted every 10 years since 1790, faces dramatic new challenges as the country begins its third century. Critics of the 1990 census cited problems of increasingly high costs, continued racial differences in counting the population, and declining public confidence.

This volume provides a major review of the traditional U.S. census. Starting from the most basic questions of how data are used and whether they are needed, the volume examines the data that future censuses should provide. It evaluates several radical proposals that have been made for changing the census, as well as other proposals for redesigning the year 2000 census.

The book also considers in detail the much-criticized long form, the role of race and ethnic data, and the need for and ways to obtain small-area data between censuses.

Copyright:
1995

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780309051828
Related ISBNs:
9780309538398, 9780585032481, 9781279734483
Publisher:
National Academy Press
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Copyrighted By:
The National Academy of Sciences
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Mathematics and Statistics
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Bookshare Staff
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