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Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America

Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America

Update: 2016-11-09
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Cassandra Pattanayak reads from Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America, by Margo Anderson and Stephen Fienberg, published by Russell Sage Foundation in 2001.

"American census takers have ... confronted counting problems since 1790 and have [produced] a count of the population each decade despite wars, shipwrecked schedules, and the confusion of respondents."
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Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America

Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America

Cassandra Pattanayak