- Addresses the unique issues of a census in the 21st Century, including hacking, mistrust of government, privacy concerns, a highly mobile population, and hard-to-count subgroups
- Investigates and analyzes the entwined technical and political issues of the Census
- Explores recent Supreme Court decisions affecting the Census
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- About this book
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The decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis. From a statistical viewpoint, it is critical because it is the only database that maps every inhabitant into a geographic location. By constitutional mandate, census data are the basis for reapportioning the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. The states use census data to redistrict their state legislatures and often to redraw boundaries for local elections. Census data inform the distribution of over $1.5 trillion in federal funding during the decade.
This book details the fundamentals and significance of the 2020 Census for the non-specialist reader. It covers why the Census is the only statistical activity required by the US Constitution, the challenges of working towards an accurate and complete count, and what political ramifications flow from this process. Concise, timely, and comprehensible, this book provides helpful real-life examples while also offering an overview of the entwined statistical and political issues that surround the Census.
- About the authors
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Teresa A. Sullivan is president emerita and university professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, and the interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan State University. Renowned for her scholarly contributions in social demography, she is the author or coauthor of multiple publications, including The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (2000, with E. Warren and J. L. Westbrook), The Social Organization of Work (2011, with R. Hodson), and As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America (1999, with E. Warren and J. L. Westbrook).
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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The Census: A Pillar of American Democracy and American Society
Pages 1-16
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Who, What, When, and Where of the Census
Pages 17-31
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Who’s Missing? Undercounting and Underreporting
Pages 33-47
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The Citizenship Issue and Gerrymandering
Pages 49-67
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Privacy and Data Protection
Pages 69-84
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Census 2020
- Book Subtitle
- Understanding the Issues
- Authors
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- Teresa A. Sullivan
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-40578-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-40578-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-40577-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 113
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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