| Modernizing the U.S. Census Contributor(s): National Research Council (Author), Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc (Author), Commission on Behavioral and Social Scie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0309051827 ISBN-13: 9780309051828 Publisher: National Academies Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1994 Annotation: This book contains a researched effort by quite a few people to evaluate the census and found ways in which the census could be improved. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Social Science | Statistics - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 304.607 |
| LCCN: 94069488 |
| Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.03" W x 9" (1.67 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |