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| Dimensions: 5.5'' x 8.5'' |
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| 140 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: February 1999 |
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| Paperback |
| ISBN: 0844741027 |
| Price: $ 16.95 |
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The decennial census scheduled for the year 2000 carries out a requirement in the U.S. Constitution first implemented in 1790. Census 2000 has become a highly contentious issue, and the delay in selecting an approach for carrying it out threatens its eventual effectiveness.
In high dispute is the proposed "census sampling" technique for addressing the problem of undercount. Media reports often suggest that experts share a consensus that sampling would heighten the accuracy of the census. But in Sampling and the Census, Kenneth Darga presents a compelling scientific case against the proposed procedure. In an attempt to address an inaccuracy at the national level, the proposed adjustment would seriously undermine the reliability of census data at the state and local levels. These findings show that many people who were missed by the census were missed by the coverage survey as well, and that many of the people who were identified as missed by the census do not seem to have been missed at all.
Kenneth Darga is a senior demographer at the Michigan Department of Management and Budget.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Christopher DeMuth
Preface
- Introduction
- Straining out Gnats and Swallowing Camels--Unintended Consequences of Adjusting for Undercount
- Quantifying Measurement Error and Bias in the 1990 Undercount Adjustments
- Concluding Observations
Appendix A
Appendix B
About the Author
Tables
Figures
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