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 ...

Censuses are rare. The only estimates that we have generally come from sample surveys. Rare though a census may be, let us assume for a moment that we do a census of all pupils in classes 10, 11 and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Commerce Secretary Don Evans stripped the Census Bureau on Friday from deciding whether to adjust the 2000 head count to protect against an undercount of minorities and the poor. Evans ...

A mini-census planned for 2006 will sample fewer people than usual to save costs, in a move that officials said will bring Hong Kong in line with international trends. The sample of people surveyed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS is to commence National Business Survey after 22 years. The statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale announced this on Monday while delivering a ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

Poster of China's 2015 One-percent National Sample Census. [Photo/Xinhua] China has started its fourth one-percent national sample census, covering a population of about 14 million. The census takers ...