Encyclopedia of the Us Census
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781568024288
Subjects: Census data; Reference works; United States; Politics / Current Events; Reference; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Public Affairs & Administration; Census; Encyclopedias
Table of contents: title: Housing -- Immigration -- Income and poverty measures -- International coordination in population censuses -- IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) -- Litigation and the census -- Local involvement in census taking -- Long form -- Media attention to the census -- Metropolitan areas -- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -- Not-for-profit organizations -- Occupation and education -- Organization and administration of the census -- Population estimates and projections -- Post-enumeration survey -- Pre-computer tabulation systems -- Private sector -- PUMS (Public Use Microdata Samples) -- Race : questions and classifications -- Related data sources -- Rural areas -- Sampling for content -- Sampling for follow-up of nonresponding households -- Sampling in the census -- Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) -- Staffing -- State and local censuses -- State and local governments : legislatures -- State and local governments : use of census data -- State data centers -- Statistical policy and oversight -- Summary Tape Files -- Tabulation geography -- Three-fifths Compromise -- Urban areas -- U.S. insular areas -- Uses of census data by the private sector -- Veterans’ status -- Vital registration and vital statistics -- White or European-origin population -- White population of the United States -- Women in the decennial census. Appendix. Census Leadership, 1850-2000 -- U.S. Population and Area, 1790-2000 -- Center of Population, 1790-1990 -- Congressional apportionment, 1789-1990 / Percentage of the House of Representatives for each state after each apportionment -- Methods of Congressional apportionment -- Chronology of the states of the union -- Growth of the decennial census, 1790-1990 -- Cost of taking the census, 1790-2000 -- Census 2000 questionnaires: short and long forms -- Standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity -- Census on the internet.