The American Census

Author : Margo J. Anderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Frank Donnelly
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Teresa A. Sullivan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : William P. O'Hare
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Census undercounts
ISBN : 9783030109738

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Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census by William P. O'Hare Pdf

This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why such undercounts occur. In addition to focusing on measuring census coverage for several demographic characteristics, including age, gender, race, Hispanic origin status, and tenure, it also considers several of the main hard-to-count populations, such as immigrants, the homeless, the LBGT community, children in foster care, and the disabled. However, given the dearth of accurate undercount data for these groups, they are covered less comprehensively than those demographic groups for which there is reliable undercount data from the Census Bureau. This book is of interest to demographers, statisticians, survey methodologists, and all those interested in census coverage.

Author : Paul Schor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199917853

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Counting Americans by Paul Schor Pdf

By telling how the US census classified and divided Americans by race and origin from the founding of the United States to World War II, this text shows how public statistics have been used to create an unequal representation of the nation

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309051828

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Modernizing the U.S. Census by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond Pdf

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.

Author : Margo J. Anderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300047096

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The American Census by Margo J. Anderson Pdf

This book, published on the eve of the bicentennial of the American census, is the first social history of this remarkably important institution, from its origins in 1790 to the present. Margo Anderson argues that the census has always been an influential policymaking tool, used not only to determine the number of representatives apportioned to each state but also to allocate tax dollars to states, and, in the past, to define groups-such as slaves and immigrants-who were to be excluded from the American polity. "As a history of the census, this study is a delight. It is thoroughly researched and richly detailed. Anderson is to be commended for covering such an expansive chronology with such skill. . . . Anderson has woven together not only social history but also intellectual, institutional, political, and military history into a thoroughly readable book that examines not only changes in the census but also the remarkable changes that have taken place in the US."-Choice "This book is valuable, clearly written and contains many interesting facts. It should be read not only by national policymakers and the statistical community, but by all who are interested in American society."-Bryant Robey, Population Today "A solid and readable piece of social, political, and institutional history. It will be essential reading not only for historians of American politics but also for census and population experts, for any public policy formulators who rely on census figures, and for those interested in the history of numeracy and statistics."-Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author : Andrew Whitby
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541619333

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The Sum of the People by Andrew Whitby Pdf

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe. In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census, from ancient China and the Roman Empire, through revolutionary America and Nazi-occupied Europe, to the steps of the Supreme Court. Marvels of democracy, instruments of exclusion, and, at worst, tools of tyranny and genocide, censuses have always profoundly shaped the societies we've built. Today, as we struggle to resist the creep of mass surveillance, the traditional census -- direct and transparent -- may offer the seeds of an alternative.

Author : Jason G. Gauthier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D02245332N

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Measuring America by Jason G. Gauthier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Government questionnaires
ISBN : OCLC:682836812

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The American Community Survey by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joel Perlmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674425057

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America Classifies the Immigrants by Joel Perlmann Pdf

Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.

Author : Carroll Davidson Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015007025003

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The History and Growth of the United States Census by Carroll Davidson Wright Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Employment forecasting
ISBN : IND:30000089076727

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Occupational Outlook Handbook by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Melissa Nobles
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : William Thorndale,William Dollarhide
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Census districts
ISBN : 9780806311883

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Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 by William Thorndale,William Dollarhide Pdf

Genealogical research in U.S. censuses begins with identifying correct county jurisdictions ??o assist in this identification, the map Guide shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals. Accompanying each map are explanations of boundary changes, notes about the census, & tocality finding keys. In addition, there are inset maps which clarify ??erritorial lines, a state-by-state bibliography of sources, & an appendix outlining pitfalls in mapping county boundaries. Finally, there is an index which lists all present day counties, plus nearly all defunct counties or counties later renamed-the most complete list of American counties ever published.