Census

Author : Jesse Ball
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062676153

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Census by Jesse Ball Pdf

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY TheNew York Times•TheChicago Reader • Nylon • The Boston Globe • TheHuffington Post • The Rumpus •The AV Club •Southern Living •The Millions • Buzzfeed • Esquire • Publishers Weekly A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son. Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach “Z,” the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son? Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love, from one of our most captivating young writers.

Author : Margo J. Anderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300216967

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The American Census by Margo J. Anderson Pdf

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.

Author : Bruce Curtis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802085857

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The Politics of Population by Bruce Curtis Pdf

Curtis discusses census making as a political project, investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic, religious, and sectional struggles.

Author : Teresa A. Sullivan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030405786

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Census 2020 by Teresa A. Sullivan Pdf

The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis. From a statistical viewpoint, it is critical because it is the only database that maps every inhabitant into a geographic location. By constitutional mandate, census data are the basis for reapportioning the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. The states use census data to redistrict their state legislatures and often to redraw boundaries for local elections. Census data inform the distribution of over $1.5 trillion in federal funding during the decade. This book details the fundamentals and significance of the 2020 Census for the non-specialist reader. It covers why the Census is the only statistical activity required by the US Constitution, the challenges of working towards an accurate and complete count, and what political ramifications flow from this process. Concise, timely, and comprehensible, this book provides helpful real-life examples while also offering an overview of the entwined statistical and political issues that surround the Census.

Author : Colin J. Bibby,Neil D. Burgess,David A. Hill
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080984506

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Bird Census Techniques by Colin J. Bibby,Neil D. Burgess,David A. Hill Pdf

Wild birds are counted for a wide variety of reasons and by a bewildering array of methods. However, detailed descriptions of the techniques used and the rationale adopted are scattered in the literature, and the newcomer to bird census work or the experienced bird counter in search of a wider view, may well have difficulty in coming to grips with the subject as a whole. While not an end in itself, numerical and distributional census work is a fundamental part of many scientific and conservation studies, and one in which the application of given standards is vital if results are not to be distorted or applied in a misleading way. This book provides a concise guide to the various census techniques and to the opportunities and pitfalls which each entails. The common methods are described in detail, and illustrated through an abundance of diagrams showing examples of actual and theoretical census studies. Anyone with a bird census job to plan should be able to select the method best suited to the study at hand, and to apply it to best effect within the limits inherent in it and the constraints of the particular study. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology have for many years pioneered the collaboration of amateurs and professionals in various census studies. Three members of their staff, each with extensive field experience, now pool the knowledge of these investigations to lay the groundwork for sound census work in future years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000003973116

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1992 Census of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Housing
ISBN : MINN:30000003119959

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1990 Census of Population and Housing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Wholesale trade
ISBN : NYPL:33433031154382

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1992 Census of Wholesale Trade by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCR:31210023592973

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1978 Census of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005928812

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Census of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Donnelly
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544355436

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Exploring the U.S. Census by Frank Donnelly Pdf

Exploring the U.S. Census gives social science students and researchers alike the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze data from the decennial census, the American Community Survey, and other data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. Donnelly′s text provides a thorough background on the data collection methods, structures, and potential pitfalls of the census for unfamiliar researchers, collecting information previously available only in widely disparate sources into one handy guide. Hands-on, applied exercises at the end of the chapters help readers dive into the data. Along the way, the author shows how best to analyze census data with open-source software and tools. Readers can freely evaluate the data on their own computers, in keeping with the free and open data provided by the Census Bureau. By placing the census in the context of the open data movement, this text makes the history and practice of the census relevant so readers can understand what a crucial resource the census is for research and knowledge.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010380255

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United States Census of Agriculture: 1950 by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Melissa Nobles
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804740593

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Shades of Citizenship by Melissa Nobles Pdf

This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country’s first census in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up through the 2000 census. It sharply challenges certain presumptions that guide scholarly and popular studies, notably that census bureaus are (or are designed to be) innocent bystanders in the arena of politics, and that racial data are innocuous demographic data. Using previously overlooked historical sources, the book demonstrates that counting by race has always been a fundamentally political process, shaping in important ways the experiences and meanings of citizenship. This counting has also helped to create and to further ideas about race itself. The author argues that far from being mere producers of racial statistics, American and Brazilian censuses have been the ultimate insiders with respect to racial politics. For most of their histories, American and Brazilian censuses were tightly controlled by state officials, social scientists, and politicians. Over the past thirty years in the United States and the past twenty years in Brazil, however, certain groups within civil society have organized and lobbied to alter the methods of racial categorization. This book analyzes both the attempt of America’s multiracial movement to have a multiracial category added to the U.S. census and the attempt by Brazil’s black movement to include racial terminology in census forms. Because of these efforts, census bureau officials in the United States and Brazil today work within political and institutional constraints unknown to their predecessors. Categorization has become as much a "bottom-up” process as a "top-down” one.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89124188616

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1970 Census and Legislation Related Thereto by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Statistics Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Retail trade
ISBN : WISC:89116982588

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1967 Census of Business by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf