The Michigan Daily

Accuracy v. accuracy: Statistical sampling more accurate

Today a committee of senior U.S. Census officials will make a recommendation with $185 billion at stake. Their recommendation to Bush-appointed Census director William Barron concerns the use of ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

The sampling frame for the American Community Survey (ACS) is based on the Master Address File (MAF), which is the Census Bureau’s inventory of known housing units, group quarters (GQ), transitory ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...
Yahoo

Trump isn't the first president to politicize the census

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A simple count of everyone in the country. What could be so hard about that? In the 23 times that count has been done in the ...