Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America¶
Anderson, M. J., & Fienberg, S. E. (1999). Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America. Sage.
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Mechanisms¶
- Census Protocol
- Its signature failure is differential undercount: the count is not merely incomplete but unevenly incomplete, systematically missing the same hard-to-reach subgroups every cycle, so the error corrupts allocations that ride on it.
This sourceDocuments persistent undercount of minorities and poor inner-city residents and explains that differential undercount undermines legislative apportionment and policy allocation.
- Its signature failure is differential undercount: the count is not merely incomplete but unevenly incomplete, systematically missing the same hard-to-reach subgroups every cycle, so the error corrupts allocations that ride on it.
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