Book Description:
The Bureau of the Census Director's constitutional mandate to enumerate the U.S. population every 10 years has been summarized with deceptive simplicity: count each person whose usual residence is in the United States; count the person only once and count him or her at the right location. In reality, the attempt to find all U.S. residents and correctly enumerate them is increasingly complicated, expensive and it attracts congressional scrutiny. This book discusses the major innovations that were planned for the 2010 census; problems encountered, issues of census accuracy, coverage and fairness and the present status of census operations. (Imprint: Nova)

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Table of Contents:
Preface

The 2010 Decennial Census: Background and Issues
(Jennifer D. Williams)pp.1-30

Data Collection Operations Were Generally Completed as Planned, but Long-Standing Challenges Suggest Need for Fundamental Reforms
(GAO)pp.31-72

Key Efforts to Include Hard-to-Count Populations Went Generally as Planned; Improvements Could Make the Efforts More Effective for Next Census
(GAO)pp.73-110

Follow-Up Should Reduce Coverage Errors, but Effects on Demographic Groups Need to Be Determined
(GAO)pp.111-128

Cooperation with Enumerators is Critical to a Successful Headcount
(Statement of Robert Goldenkoff, Director, Strategic Issues, (GAO))pp.129-144

Plans for Census Coverage Measurement are on Track, but Additional Steps Will Improve its Usefulness
(GAO)pp.145-162

Index pp.163-167