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- Good overviews of the census process and the U.S. Bureau of the Census
- are: Margo J. Anderson, The American Census: A Social History (New
- Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988).
-
- Ann Herbert Scott, Census, U.S.A. (New York: The Seabury Press, 1968).
-
- Carroll D. Wright and William C. Hunt, The History and Growth of the
- United States Census, 1790-1890 (Washington, DC: Government Printing
- Office, 1900).
-
- U.S. Bureau of the Census '80: Continuing the Factfinder Tradition by
- Charles P. Kaplan, Thomas Van Valey and Associates (Washington, DC:
- GPO, 1980).
-
- 1. U.S. Bureau of the Census, A Century of Population Growth: From
- the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790-1900
- (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909) p. 2.
- 2. Kaplan and Van Valey, Census '80...,chapter 1.
- 3. U.S. Bureau of the Census, "The Coverage of Population in the 1980
- Census," by Robert Fay, Jeffrey Passel, and J. Gregory Robinson,
- PHC80-E4 (Washington,DC:GPO, February 1988) Table A.50.1 Table A.
- 60.2, Table A.70.4, and Table A.80.4 in Appendix A.
- 4. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Geographic Areas Reference Manual
- (Washington, DC: GPO, 1989).
- 5. Robert W. Marx, "The TIGER System: Automating the Geographic
- Structure of the United States Census," Government Publications
- Review, Vol. 13, 1986, pp. 118-120.
- 6. Robert A LaMacelia, Silla G. Tomasi, and Sheldon K. Piepenburg,
- "The TIGER File: Proposed Products," Paper presented to the
- National Conference of State Legislators, Hartford, CT, November
- 1987.
- 7. Robert W. Marx, "Computer Mapping and the Census Bureau: The
- Future and You," Paper presented to the AM/FM International East-
- ern Regional Conference, May 5-7, 1986, p. 13.
- 8. "Plans for Data Products from the 1990 Census," by Paula J.
- Schneider and Philip N. Fulton, Population Division, U.S. Bureau
- of the Census, Paper presented to the 1988 Annual Meeting of the
- Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, April 1988.
- 9. Ibid.
- 10. Marshall L. Turner, Jr., "The 1990 Census of the United States:
- Planned Data Products," Paper presented at the Cairo Conference
- on Dissemination and Use of Census Data, Cairo, Egypt, October
- 1988.
- 11. Schneider and Fulton, Plans for Data...
- 12. Paul T. Zeisset, "Making Decennial Census Data Available," Gov-
- ernment Information Quarterly, Vol. 2, Number 4 (November 1985) p.
- 430.
- 13. Anderson, American Census..., p. 140.
- 14. Good explanations of the various methods are in Michael Balinski
- and H. Peyton Young, Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One
- Man, One Vote (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).
- 15. Title 13, United States Code, Census, Section 141 (b).
- 16. Penelope E. Harvison, Robert C. Speaker, and Marshall L. Turner,
- Jr., "Drawing the Lines--By the Numbers: The Statistical Founda-
- tions of the Electoral Process," Government Information Quarter-
- ly Vol. 2, No. 4 (November 1985) pp. 389-405.
- 17. "Political Clout Moving Sunward," Press Release, Population Re-
- ference Bureau, August 4, 1988.
- 18. Federal Register, Vol. 51, No. 51, March 17, 1986.
- 19. Kaplan and Van Valey, Census '80...,p. 120.
- 20. Ibid.
- 21. Anderson, American Census....,p. 89.
- 22. Fay, Passel, and Robinson, Coverage 1980.
- 23. U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Chronological Listing of 1980 Law-
- suits," July 20, 1988.
- 24. Memorandum from Sherry L. Courtland, Chief, Program and Policy De-
- velopment Office, U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Why the Census
- Bureau Cannot Exclude Illegal Aliens from the 1990 Census," Feb-
- ruary 10, 1988.
- 25. Statement of Barbara A. Bailar before the Subcommittee on Census
- and Population, Post Office and Civil Service Committee, U.S.
- House of Representatives, July 24, 1986.
- 26. Testimony of John G. Keane before the Subcommittee on Energy, Nu-
- clear Proliferation, and Government Processes, U.S. Senate Commit-
- tee on Governmental Affairs, September 4, 1986.
- 27. TerriAnn Lowenthal, "State and Local Government Participation in
- the Census," October 14, 1987, p. 6.
- 28. Statement of Robert Ortner, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
- Department of Commerce, on the 1990 Census, Washington, DC, News
- Release, October 30, 1987, p. 2.
- 29. Ibid., p. 3.
- 30. C. L. Kincannon, "U.S. Bureau of the Census Statement on Adjust-
- ment in the 1990 Census," July 15, 1988, p. 1.
- 31. Ibid.
- 32. "Commerce Dept. is Sued to Force Adjustment of 1990 Census Plan,"
- New York Times, November 4, 1988.
- 33. Kaplan and Van Valey, Census'80..., p. 12.
- 34. Bryant Robey, "Adjusting for Census Undercount: The Statistical
- Nightmare," American Demographics, February 1980.
- 35. U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Developing 21st Century Decennial Cen-
- sus Alternatives," Presentation to Census Advisory Committees,
- April 14, 1988.
- 36. Ibid.
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-
- Source:"Two Hundred Years And Counting," The Population Reference
- Bureau, Washington, D.C.