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 S

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Exploring the U.S. Census gives social science students and researchers the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze census data, including the Americ

This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. I

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and su