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A census that mirrors America : interim report / Panel to Evaluate Alternative Census Methods, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. - Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993. - 1 online resource (ix, 97 pages)

Panel chairman: Norman M. Bradburn. This project is supported by funds provided by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, under contract no. 50-YABC-1-66032.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-94).

Executive summary -- Key census design issues -- Sampling and statistical estimation -- Response and coverage -- Administrative records : intriguing prospects formidable obstacles -- Continuous measurement -- Appendix. Biographical sketches of panel members and staff.

ISBN: 0585155291 9780585155296

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Census undercounts--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Census--Methodology.
Census undercounts.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Census--Methodology.
United States--Census, 22nd, 2000--Methodology.
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HA37.U55 / N352 1993eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306/.0723