Today a committee of senior U.S. Census officials will make a recommendation with $185 billion at stake. Their recommendation to Bush-appointed Census director William Barron concerns the use of ...

When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn't find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the ...

Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...

Several states with extensive water use databases rely upon the census approach. That is, data are collected for all water users withdrawing amounts greater than a specified threshold that varies from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A simple count of everyone in the country. What could be so hard about that? In the 23 times that count has been done in the ...

The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) revealed significant errors in the 2020 Census count. As a result, certain states will be shorted in their congressional representation until after the 2030 ...

The number of people of Portuguese origin living in the United States increased by 3.5 percent between 2010 and 2020 - from 1,405,909 in 2010 estimates to 1,454,262 – according to newly released ...

A key member of the Supreme Court sent strong signals yesterday that she may be about to side with Utah in its battle with North Carolina over the apportionment of congressional seats under the 2000 ...