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The American census : a social history / Margo J. Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Margo J., 1945-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
©2015
Description
1 online resource (x, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps
Availability
Available Online
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United States
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Census
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History
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United States
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Population
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History
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United States
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Statistical services
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Summary note
This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, including the undercount controversies, the arrival of the American Community Survey, and innovations of the digital age. Margo J. Anderson's scholarly text effectively bridges the fields of history and public policy, demonstrating how the census both reflects the country's extraordinary demographic character and constitutes an influential tool for policy making. Her book is essential reading for all those who use census data, historical or current, in their studies or work.-- Provided by Publisher.
Notes
Revised edition of the author's The American census, ©1988.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 4, 2015).
Contents
Introduction
The census and the new nation: apportionment, Congress, and the progress of the United States
Sectional crisis and census reform in the 1850s
Counting slaves and freedmen: war and reconstruction by the numbers
The census and industrial America in the Gilded Age
Building the federal statistical system in the early twentieth century
The tribal twenties: national origins, malapportionment, and cheating by the numbers
Counting the unemployed and the crisis of the Great Depression
War, welfare, and the census: statistics for the American century
Reapportionment, funds allocations, and the census
Census undercount and the politics of counting, 1970-1980
The undercount controversies continue
The census and the American community survey
Conclusion
Appendix 1: U.S. population and area, 1790-2010
Appendix 2: Growth and cost of the decennial census, 1790-2010
Appendix 3: Congressional apportionment, 1789-2010
Appendix 4: Chronology of the states of the Union.
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ISBN
9780300216967 ((electronic book))
0300216963 ((electronic book))
0300161026 ((electronic bk.))
9780300161021 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
915343906
Other standard number
YBP12503387
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