Choice and conflict about census data: adjusting the American census count.

In this paper "reasons for inevitable defects in the census count are listed in the first section; the second section reports efforts by the U.S. Census Bureau to identify sources of error in census coverage, and make estimates of the size of the errors.... The paper describes the conflict between statistical practices, laws and public policy about census adjustment in the United States, and concludes by considering the extent to which causes [of error] in America are likely to be found in other countries." excerpt