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Who Counts? The politics of censustaking

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  • Barry Edmonston and Charles Schultze, Modernizing the U.S. Census, (1994). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

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  • Duane L. Steffey and Norman M. Bradburn. Counting People in the Information Age, (1994), Washington DC: National Academy Press.

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  • U.S. Bureau of the Census, “The Plan for Census 2000,” Issued February 28, 1996.

  • E. Ann Vacca, Mary Mulry, Ruth Ann Killion, “1995 Census Test Results, Memorandum No. 46: The 1995 Census Test: A Compilation of Results and Decisions,” Paper presented at the ASA/PAA Subcommittee of the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations, April 25–26, 1996.

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  1. Margo Anderson
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Margo Anderson is an American social historian at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. She specializes in the history of statistical accounting systems, including censuses, and the agencies of the federal statistical system which produce data. Her publications include The American Census: A Social History (Yale University Press, 1988). She recently coedited Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996) with Maurine Greenwald.

Stephen E. Fienberg is Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has published extensively on the analysis of categorical data, on aspects of sample surveys and randomized experiments, and on the role of statistical methods in censustaking.

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Anderson, M., Fienberg, S.E. Who Counts? The politics of censustaking. Soc 34, 19–26 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-997-1002-9

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