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"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.
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
The Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, Second Edition updates and
expands a critically-acclaimed resource to the history, politics,
content, procedures, and uses of the decennial census of the
American population. The new edition highlights changes in the
Census Bureau's data collection and dissemination practices for the
2010 enumeration, including the use of a short-form questionnaire
for the actual population count, and the release in late 2010 of
the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data set based on
rolling samples of the U.S. population and gathered using the
long-form questionnaire. The second edition also comprehensively
covers the fallout from the 2000 census and recent issues affecting
the administration of the 2010 count.
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