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Margo J. Anderson. The American Census: A Social History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
Harvey M. Choldin. Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy over Census Undercounts. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
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Urban sociologist Harvey Choldin is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He teaches courses on social problems, community, and cities and suburbs. From 1994 to 1996 he was chair of the American Sociological Association’s section on community and urban sociology. He is the author of Cities and Suburbs: An Introduction to Urban Sociology (1985) and Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversies over Census Undercounts (1994).
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Choldin, H.M. How sampling will help defeat the undercount. Soc 34, 27–30 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-997-1003-8
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