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- Title
The Census, Sampling and African Americans.
- Authors
Nguyen, Phung
- Abstract
African Americans have been systematically and disproportionately undercounted by the census and the main reason for this undercount is the Bureau's inherently biased headcount method. The Bureau proposed to use sampling in the 2000 census to combat this undercount problems. The proposal was widely supported by statisticians and census scholars but was met with stiff opposition from sampling opponents who either did not fully grasp the technical nature of sampling or due to ideological inclination, ignored the significance of sampling in the census. The dual objective of this paper is to demonstrate that sampling opponents' arguments are technically unsound and legally unpersuasive and to suggest a new direction for Congress in dealing with sampling in the coming census.
- Subjects
CENSUS undercounts; POPULATION statistics; VITAL statistics on African American; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICAL bias
- Publication
Western Journal of Black Studies, 2004, Vol 28, Issue 1, p292
- ISSN
0197-4327
- Publication type
Article