"Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census" represents a unique and
definitive collaboration among more than 80 leading experts on all
aspects of the U.S. Census. Drawing from academia, government, and
the private sector, CQ Press and the editorial board have
commissioned more than 100 concise, definitive articles on the
decennial census and related topics. Subjects covered include:
content of the census - what the census tracks, and when it began
to ask specific questions, how questions are formulated, and
factors that affect which questions are asked, and other types of
censuses (housing, economic, and agricultural); procedure - how the
census is planned, advertised, and conducted, state and local
involvement, and how results are tabulated and stored; and uses of
the census - publications, databases, and electronic products that
provide census information for statistical and demographic
research, and archiving of census records and genealogical use of
census schedules. It also includes: census history - census taking
in America from colonial times to the present and at each census,
population trends over time, including changes in family
composition, racial and ethnic groups, and the social, economic,
and educational status of the population; politics of the census -
effect of census data on congressional districts and funding of
federal programs, controversies: from slavery and the three-fifths
compromise in 1790, to the use of statistical sampling in 2000.
Other features include a 16-page photo collection that visually
shows the census evolution, and an extensive glossary of terms, as
well as an appendix of useful information and a detailed index
round out the volume. Most articles include references for further
reading; many also point the reader to online resources for census
information.
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