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Census 2000 and the politics of census taking

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  1. Margo Anderson
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Margo Anderson teaches in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is author of The American Census: A Social Historyand editor of Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census.Stephen E. Fienberg teaches in the Department of Statistics & Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, Carnegie Mellon University and is author with Margo Anderson of Who Counts? The Politics Census-Taking in Contemporary America.

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Anderson, M., Fienberg, S.E. Census 2000 and the politics of census taking. Soc 39, 17–25 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712616

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