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 S

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The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis. From a stati

Exploring the U.S. Census gives social science students and researchers the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze census data, including the Americ

This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highe