Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

Prominent New York Democrats called on President-elect George W. Bush’s nominee for commerce secretary yesterday to use scientific sampling in the new census to correct what they predict will be a ...

WASHINGTON — Several Republicans are questioning whether the Census Bureau should release a second population count--this one more politically sensitive--to account for historically undercounted ...

Try dropping the words "statistical sampling" while in conversation with a Republican politician and watch the sizzle. Why does such a nerdy blending of adjective and noun inflame GOP lawmakers like ...

Dec. 29, 2000 — -- Even before the Census Bureau released figures this week that will shuffle the number of seats many states have in Congress, Washington was roiling over a second set of numbers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Commerce Secretary Don Evans stripped the Census Bureau on Friday from deciding whether to adjust the 2000 head count to protect against an undercount of minorities and the poor. Evans ...

Margaret Warner explores the continuing controversy of sampling when determining the 2000 U.S. census numbers. The U.S. Census Bureau worked particularly hard last year to count every American. With a ...

Census 2000 failed to count 509,012 Californians, more than half of them in the Southland, according to a set of much-debated, statistically revised figures released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

EVEN WITHOUT POLITICS, THE CENSUS IS STUPENDOUSLY difficult. Just before April 1 of next year, the Census Bureau will mail about 94 million questionnaires to American households and deliver an ...

President Obama will today announce that he has chosen potentially-polarizing University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves to become census director, according to the Associated Press. Groves, a ...

New York City is considering joining a federal lawsuit that challenges the Bush administration’s method for deciding whether sampling should be used in the U. S. census. At issue is a recent decision ...