Who counts? : the politics of census-taking in contemporary America /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Anderson, Margo J., 1945-
Imprint:	New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1999.
Description:	x, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Bureau of the Census. Census undercounts -- United States -- History. Methodology. Census undercounts. United States -- Census -- Methodology -- History. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4025969

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Other authors / contributors:	Fienberg, Stephen E.
ISBN:	0871542560
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.

Table of 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
Chapter 10. The Saga Continues
Appendixes
Notes
References
About the Authors
Index

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