Counting on the Census?
Subtitle: Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780815779643
Subjects: Census data; Constitution: government & the state; Racism & racial discrimination; Statistics; Public Policy - Social Policy; Census And General Statistics; Race And Ethnic Relations; Political Science; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Race; Demography; United States; Minority Studies - General; Apportionment (Election law); Census; Group identity
Description: "In part, this book is a brief against census adjustment. It begins by arguing that the inherent unreliability of racial and ethnic data requires a more realistic standard of accuracy than has typically been adopted by adjustment advocates. It also maintains that the implications of the undercount for both minorities and nonminorities--including the partisan interests of Democrats and Republicans--are grossly exaggerated and misunderstood.  A novel intervention into a highly complex system, adjustment would produce all sorts of unpredictable results..." -- Introduction, p.1.