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Bean, F., B. Edmonston, and J. Passel, eds. 1990 Undocumented Migration to the United States: IRCA and the Experience of the 1980s. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press.

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Bureau of the Census 1983 1980 Census of Population, Chapter B-General Population Characteristics . Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Diffendal, G. 1994 Block Level Analysis. May 10. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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Dillman, D.A., M.D. Sinclair, and J.R. Clark 1993 The 1992 simplified questionnaire test: effects of questionnaire length, respondent-friendly design, and request for Social Security numbers on completion rates. Pp. 8-17 in Proceedings of the 1993 Bureau of the Census Annual Research Conference. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce.

Edmonston, B. 1992 Nonresponse Rates for Census Questions, 1980 and 1990. Memorandum dated September 21 to the Federal Statistical System Working Group, Panel on Census Requirements for the Year 2000 and Beyond. Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

1994 Census Cost Estimates. March 8. Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

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Fay, R.E. 1988 Evaluation of Census Coverage From the 1980 Post Enumeration Program (PEP): Census Population and Geocoding Errors as Measured by the E-Sample. 1980 Census Preliminary Evaluation Results Memorandum No. 119. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of the Census.

Fellegi, I.P. 1981 Comments. Pp. 51-68 in Congressional Research Service, Using Cumulated Rolling Samples to Integrate Census and Survey Operations of the Census Bureau. Prepared for the Subcommittee on Census and Population, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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Green, S., and H.A. Scarr 1993 Letter of Transmittal: U.S. Postal Service-Census Cooperation in Planning for the 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Housing. November 5. U.S. Postal Service and Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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Hogan, H. 1993 The 1990 post-enumeration survey: operations and results. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88(423):1047-1060.

Hogan, H., and G. Robinson 1993 What the Census Bureau's coverage evaluation programs tell us about the differential undercount. Pp. 9-28 in 1993 Research Conference on Undercounted Ethnic Populations. Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce.

Horvitz, D.G. 1986 Statement to the Subcommittee on Census and Population, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, May 1. Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, N.C.


Irwin, R. 1984 Feasibility of an Administrative Records Census in 1990. Special Report on the Use of Administrative Records. Administrative Records Subcommittee, Committee on the Use

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of Administrative Records in the 1990 Census. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

Keeley, C. 1993 Could the Census Bureau Reduce the Undercount by Not Using a ''Long Form?" Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

Keller, J. 1993a Census Cost Estimates: Response to Question 4 on Truncating and Sampling Nonresponse Follow-up. Facsimile message to B. Edmonston dated October 13. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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1994 Letter dated August 15 to M. Conrad, Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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Kulka, R.A., N.A. Holt, W. Carter, and K.L. Dowd 1991 Self-reports of time pressures, concerns for privacy, and participation in the 1990 mail census. Pp. 33-54 in Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census 1991 Annual Research Conference. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce.


Mann, E. 1994 Race, Color and Related Concepts in the Decennial Censuses of the United States, 1790 to 1990. Paper commissioned by the Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

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McKenney, N., C. Bennett, R. Harrison, and J. del Pinal 1993 Evaluating Racial and Ethnic Reporting in the 1990 Census. Paper presented at the 1993 Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, San Francisco, California

Miskura, S.M. 1992 Estimating the Full Cycle Costs for the Simplified Questionnaire Test (SQT). 2KS Memorandum Series, Design 2000, Book I, Chapter 30, #6, November 2. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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Murray, M.P. 1992 Census adjustment and the distribution of federal spending. Demography 29 (3):319-332.


Neece, L. 1993 Analysis of Potential Cost Reductions for the Truncated Nonresponse Follow-Up Census. Memorandum dated July 21 for J. Keller. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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Neece, L., and J. Pentercs 1993 Analysis of Factors Associated with Census Cost Increases. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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Schultze, C.L. 1993 Letter dated November 17 to H.A. Scarr, acting director, Bureau of the Census . Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

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The U.S. census, conducted every 10 years since 1790, faces dramatic new challenges as the country begins its third century. Critics of the 1990 census cited problems of increasingly high costs, continued racial differences in counting the population, and declining public confidence.

This volume provides a major review of the traditional U.S. census. Starting from the most basic questions of how data are used and whether they are needed, the volume examines the data that future censuses should provide. It evaluates several radical proposals that have been made for changing the census, as well as other proposals for redesigning the year 2000 census. The book also considers in detail the much-criticized long form, the role of race and ethnic data, and the need for and ways to obtain small-area data between censuses.

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