Census Statistics Research Guide: Books about the Census

Alonso, William and Paul Starr. The Politics of Numbers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation,1986. Main Libr HA37.U55 P65 1986.

Anderson, Margo J. Ed. Congressional Quarterly's Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000. Main Ref HA37.U55 C66 2000.

--. The American Census: A Social History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988. Main Libr HA37.U55 A53 1988.

Anderson, Margo J. and Stephen E. Fienberg. Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Main Libr HA179.A53 1999.

Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Panel on Decennial Census Plans. Counting the People in 1980: An Appraisal of Census Plans. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1978. Main Libr HA201 1980.N37 1978.

Barrett, Richard Edward. Using the 1990 U.S. Census for Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SagePublications, 1994. Main Ref HA201 1990ad

Bohme, Frederick G. 200 Years of U.S. Census Taking: Population and Housing Questions, 1790-1990. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1989. Govt Doc C 3.2: T 93.

Cassedy, James H. Demography in Early America: Beginnings of the Statistical Mind, 1600-1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. Main Libr HA37.U55 C35.

Choldin, Harvey M. Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy Over Census Undercounts. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Main Libr HA214.C57 1994.

Congressional Research Service. The Decennial Census: An Analysis and Review. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1980. Govt Doc Y 4.G 74/9: C 33/3.

Cook, Kevin L. Dubester's U.S. census bibliography with SuDocs class numbers and indexes. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1996. Bowdoin Main Ref HA214 .C66 1996.

Eckler, A. Ross. The Bureau of the Census. New York: Praeger, 1972. Main Libr HA37.U55 E25.

Gauthier, Jason G. Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 2002. Govt Ref C 3.2: M 46/2.

Holt, William Stull. The Bureau of the Census: Its History, Activities, and Organization. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1929. Offsite. HA37.U55 H6.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Guide to Resources and Services. Ann Arbor, MI: Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1976. Main Ref Z7161 .I65 1996/97.

Kish, Leslie. Using Cumulated Rolling Samples to Integrated Census and Survey Operations ofthe Census Bureau: An Analysis, Review, and Response. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1981. Govt Doc Y 4.P 84/10: C 33/13

Lavin, Michael R. Understanding the Census: A Guide for Marketers, Planners, Grant Writers,and Other Data Users. Kenmore, NY: Epoch Books Inc., 1996. Main Libr HA201 1990.L38 1996.

Mitroff, Ian I., Vincent P. Barabba, and Richard O. Mason. The 1980 Census, Policymaking Amid Turbulence. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982. Main Libr HA201 1980f.

Nobles, Melissa. Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Main Libr HT1523.N63 2000

Norwood, Janet Lippe. Organizing to Count: Change in the Federal Statistical System. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1995. Main Libr HA37.U55 N67 1995.

Riche, Martha Farnsworth and Deirdre A. Gaquin. Ed. The Who, What, and Where of America:Understanding the Census Results. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press, 2003. Main Ref HA201.122.W46 2003.

Roberts, Sam. Who We Are: A Portrait of America Based on the Latest U.S. Census. New York: Times Books, 1995. Main Libr HA201 1990k.

Schulze, Suzanne. Population Information in Nineteenth Century Census Volumes. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1983. Main Ref Z7164.D3 S44 1983.

Scott, Ann Herbert. Census, U.S.A.: Fact Finding for the American People, 1790-1970. New York, Seabury Press, 1968. Main Libr HA37.U55 S44.

Skerry, Peter. Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. Main Libr HT1521.S535 2000.

Stewart, Maxwell Slutz. Your 1970 Census. New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1969. Main Libr HA37.U55 S74.

Historical Statistics of the United States.
Comprehensive, searchable collection of statistics, including 37,000+ data sets that can be downloaded. A historical supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States. A great place to start looking for data. Footnotes to tables lead you to more detailed or more current data. The introduction to each section provides a helpful summary of major sources. Previous editions are available from the Census Bureau, HathiTrust, and elsewhere online and in print.

Wolfenden, Hugh Herbert. Population Statistics and their Compilation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. Main Libr HB881.W64 1954.

Yates, Frank. Sampling Methods for Censuses and Surveys. New York: Hafner, 1949. Main Libr HA33.Y3 1949.