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Roland Chilton and Gordon F. Sutton. “Classification by Race and Spanish Origin in the 1980 Census and Its Impact on White and Non-White Rates.” The American Statistician (August, 1986): 197–201.
Gordon F. Sutton, Roland Chilton, and Kathryn Tingos. “Minority Counts and Minority Preferences.” In Proceedings: 1993 Research Conference on Undercounted Ethnic Populations, pp. 313–49. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, Washington.
Gordon F. Sutton, Roland Chilton, Kathryn Tingos, and Janna Pereira. “Ethnic/Racial Self-Identification and the Census Undercount.” In 1993 Proceedings of the Government Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, pp. 97–102.
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Gordon F. Sutton, sociologist and demographer, is professor of sociology and research associate at the Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has held posts responsible for development of social and demographic statistics and social policy planning in the federal government and has written extensively in the areas of demography and social planning.
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Sutton, G.F. Is the undercount a demographic problem?. Soc 34, 31–35 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-997-1004-7
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