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 S

Revised edition of the author's The American census, c1988.

This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highe

Exploring the U.S. Census gives social science students and researchers alike the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze data from the decennial cen

By telling how the US census classified and divided Americans by race and origin from the founding of the United States to World War II, this text shows how pub