House Government Reform Census Subcommittee Chairman Dan Miller, R-Fla., Wednesday pointed to newly released preliminary census data--showing a better count than a decade ago--to argue against using ...

Categorical Variable: the variable whose values can be put into categories (groups). Cluster Sampling: a researcher divides the population into clusters. Then, a simple random sample of the clusters ...

With respect to the recent controversy about the national census, there is another side to the problem. It has been stated that only 57 percent of households in the City of Buffalo returned their ...

The federal government has advanced a number of arguments to justify the abolition of the long-form questionnaire in the 2011 census in favour of a new voluntary "National Household Survey." Each ...

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on a bid by minority groups for the Census Bureau to release both the official 2000 census and the figures that include estimates of people the census takers missed. The ...