Reflections of the census director

While the Census Bureau completed hundreds of research projects and surveys, collected and released the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, and began the 1992 Economic Censuses and Census of Agriculture during the tenure of census director Barbara Everitt Bryant, 4 projects stand out as unique. T...

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Published in:American demographics 1993-03, Vol.15 (3), p.13
Main Author: Bryant, Barbara Everitt
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Census of Population
Censuses
Executives
Government agencies
Improvements
Information management
Projects
Requirements
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Summary:While the Census Bureau completed hundreds of research projects and surveys, collected and released the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, and began the 1992 Economic Censuses and Census of Agriculture during the tenure of census director Barbara Everitt Bryant, 4 projects stand out as unique. These are: 1. zero-based planning for the 2000 census, 2. computer-assisted survey information collection, 3. census quality management, and 4. the 1990 census. As the Census Bureau heads farther into the 1990s, two issues are of importance. One is freeing the Census Bureau from measuring the wrong things. For example, the Census Bureau produces income estimates that incorporate noncash sources and show very different numbers for poverty. The 2nd issue is whether the Census Bureau will be able to develop a "one number census" that incorporates statistical estimation of missed persons into census taking.
ISSN:0163-4089
2163-5897