Census 2020 Understanding the Issues
The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis. From a statistical viewpoint, it is critical because it is the only database that maps every inhabitant int
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Understanding the Issues
Census 2020
Teresa A. Sullivan
Census 2020 Understanding the Issues
Teresa A. Sullivan Department of Sociology University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, USA Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Office of the Provost Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USA
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Preface
As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I had the privilege of working with the late Professor Philip M. Hauser. Before his career at the University, he had been a professional at the U.S. Census Bureau, and he was briefly the Acting Director for the 1950 Census. In the course of my doctoral research, I had the good fortune to accompany him on a research trip to Asia, where he spoke with the officials in seven national statistical offices. I was able to see firsthand how the census process was part of nation-building and how the statistical infrastructure of a society helped it economically and socially. My first professional position was at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was affiliated for many years with its Population Research Center, which had an extensive library of international censuses. I had the opportunity to observe scholars who used census data in their research and cared about how census procedures could be improved. There were many good demographers at Texas, and some of them who had a lasting influence on me were Professor Harley L. Browning, Professor Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Professor Omer R. Galle, Professor Frank D. Bean, and the late
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