WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count. Robert M. Groves, a veteran survey researcher from the ...

Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their way The administration claims it has "no plans" ...

EVEN WITHOUT POLITICS, THE CENSUS IS STUPENDOUSLY difficult. Just before April 1 of next year, the Census Bureau will mail about 94 million questionnaires to American households and deliver an ...

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 ...

The 2020 census is headed for a debacle, and California is among the states most likely to be victimized by it. Every 10 years, the Constitution requires the federal government to “enumerate” the ...

A simple count of everyone in the country. What could be so hard about that? In the 23 times that count has been done in the United States since the Constitution first required it in 1790, it’s become ...

Margaret Warner explores the continuing controversy of sampling when determining the 2000 U.S. census numbers. The U.S. Census Bureau worked particularly hard last year to count every American. With a ...

Hans von Spakovsky was an authority on a wide range of issues for Heritage—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) revealed ...

The number of people of Portuguese origin living in the United States increased by 3.5 percent between 2010 and 2020 - from 1,405,909 in 2010 estimates to 1,454,262 – according to newly released ...

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out using statistical sampling to adjust the results of the 2010 census, apparently quelling Republican ...