With respect to the recent controversy about the national census, there is another side to the problem. It has been stated that only 57 percent of households in the City of Buffalo returned their ...

Categorical Variable: the variable whose values can be put into categories (groups). Cluster Sampling: a researcher divides the population into clusters. Then, a simple random sample of the clusters ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

WASHINGTON -- Commerce Secretary Don Evans stripped the Census Bureau on Friday from deciding whether to adjust the 2000 head count to protect against an undercount of minorities and the poor. Evans ...

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on a bid by minority groups for the Census Bureau to release both the official 2000 census and the figures that include estimates of people the census takers missed. The ...