The survey analysis is drawn from a national cross-sectional survey conducted for Pew Research Center by Westat. The sampling design of the survey was an address-based sampling (ABS) approach, ...

President Obama will today announce that he has chosen potentially-polarizing University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves to become census director, according to the Associated Press. Groves, a ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 337-343 (7 pages) The most common method of sampling mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscus spp.), soap flushing, was ...

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 ...

The Federal Government of the United States has collected and published an increasing volume of statistics from the founding of the republic, but its contributions to statistical theory and method did ...

WASHINGTON — Several Republicans are questioning whether the Census Bureau should release a second population count--this one more politically sensitive--to account for historically undercounted ...

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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 ...