The American census : a social history /

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Author / Creator:	Anderson, Margo J., 1945- author.
Edition:	Second Edition.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (x, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Population. Statistical services. United States -- Census -- History. United States -- Population -- History. United States -- Statistical services -- History. United States. Electronic books. Census data. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755021

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ISBN:	9780300216967 0300216963 9780300195422 0300195427 0300161026 9780300161021
Notes:	Revised edition of the author's The American census, c1988. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.--
Other form:	Print version: Anderson, Margo J., 1945- American census. Second Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015 9780300195422
Standard no.:	YBP12503387

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The census and the new nation: apportionment, Congress, and the progress of the United States
Sectional crisis and census reform in the 1850s
Counting slaves and freedmen: war and reconstruction by the numbers
The census and industrial America in the Gilded Age
Building the federal statistical system in the early twentieth century
The tribal twenties: national origins, malapportionment, and cheating by the numbers
Counting the unemployed and the crisis of the Great Depression
War, welfare, and the census: statistics for the American century
Reapportionment, funds allocations, and the census
Census undercount and the politics of counting, 1970-1980
The undercount controversies continue
The census and the American community survey
Conclusion
Appendix 1: U.S. population and area, 1790-2010
Appendix 2: Growth and cost of the decennial census, 1790-2010
Appendix 3: Congressional apportionment, 1789-2010
Appendix 4: Chronology of the states of the Union.

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