SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate over the citizenship question is just the latest controversy that has surrounded the questionnaire since it began in 1790. That first census only asked if respondents were ...
MEASUREMENT OF RACE HAS BEEN A CRITICAL PART of census-taking from the first census in 1790; measurement of ethnicity and national origin in one or another form goes back to the 1850 census. Today, ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question as part of its practice test of the 2030 census, raising questions about whether the Trump ...
A new interactive graphic from the Census Bureau reveals that no two surveys have ever had the same set of options for choosing one's race. In 1890, a shoemaker from Louisiana named Homer Plessy ...
A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my attention while Web surfing. It appeared on the black-oriented website TheRoot.com under this eye-catching ...