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 ...

New York City is considering joining a federal lawsuit that challenges the Bush administration’s method for deciding whether sampling should be used in the U. S. census. At issue is a recent decision ...

Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their way The administration claims it has "no plans" ...

Margaret Warner explores the continuing controversy of sampling when determining the 2000 U.S. census numbers. The U.S. Census Bureau worked particularly hard last year to count every American. With a ...

As Texas Gov. George W. Bush continues his presidential campaign’s outreach to minority voters this week, leaders of some civil rights organizations are becoming more critical of his cautious views ...

WASHINGTON — To cut costs and improve accuracy, the Census Bureau said yesterday that it would actually count only 90 percent of the United States population in 2000 and rely on statistical sampling ...

Only a few feet of space–typically enough for a gangway–lies between the humble bungalows and small apartment buildings that line the streets of the tightly packed Little Village neighborhood. But ...

The data in this study are drawn from two types of Census data both including from the long form interview of the decennial U.S. Census, which includes a broad set of demographic measures beyond the ...