The Heritage Foundation

Could 2010 Census Include Make-Believe People?

Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their way The administration claims it has "no plans" ...
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 ...
Chicago Tribune

CENSUS-SAMPLING CASE EXPANDED

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to expand its study of whether the Clinton administration can use statistical sampling for the 2000 census. The court had agreed Sept. 10 to decide a dispute spurred ...
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 ...

Standard Error (SE) Explained: Understanding Standard Deviation in Statistics

Learn about standard error, its role as the standard deviation of a sample, and how it measures the accuracy of a sample ...
The Globe and Mail

Flawed arguments for census changes

The federal government has advanced a number of arguments to justify the abolition of the long-form questionnaire in the 2011 census in favour of a new voluntary "National Household Survey." Each ...