The American Census : A Social History / Margo J. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Margo J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Census--History.

United States.

United States--Population--History.

United States--Statistical services--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

2

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, including the undercount controversies, the arrival of the American Community Survey, and innovations of the digital age. Margo J. Anderson's scholarly text effectively bridges the fields of history and public policy, demonstrating how the census both reflects the country's extraordinary demographic character and constitutes an influential tool for policy making. Her book is essential reading for all those who use census data, historical or current, in their studies or work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Census and the New Nation: Apportionment, Congress, and the Progress of the United States

Chapter 2. Sectional Crisis and Census Reform in the 1850s

Chapter 3. Counting Slaves and Freedmen: War and Reconstruction by the Numbers

Chapter 4. The Census and Industrial America in the Gilded Age

Chapter 5. Building the Federal Statistical System in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 6. The Tribal Twenties: National Origins, Malapportionment, and Cheating by the Numbers

Chapter 7. Counting the Unemployed and the Crisis of the Great Depression

Chapter 8. War, Welfare, and the Census: Statistics for the American Century

Chapter 9. Reapportionment, Funds Allocations, and the Census

Chapter 10. Census Undercount and the Politics of Counting, 1970-1980

Chapter 11. The Undercount Controversies Continue

Chapter 12. The Census and the American Community Survey

Conclusion

Appendix 1. US Population and Area, 1790-2010

Appendix 2. Growth and Cost of the Decennial Census, 1790-2010

Appendix 3. Congressional Apportionment, 1789-2010

Appendix 4. Chronology of the States of the Union

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21696-3

OCLC:

924417692