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 ...

House Government Reform Census Subcommittee Chairman Dan Miller, R-Fla., Wednesday pointed to newly released preliminary census data--showing a better count than a decade ago--to argue against using ...

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.

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 ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper attention is focussed on the importance of small and compact area units in facilitating census enumeration by minimising the ...

The U.S. Census Bureau released results from its annual American Community Survey on Thursday. They show Wichita Falls and Wichita County with no significant population change over the past four years ...