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 ...

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 ...

When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn't find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the ...

A botched decennial census — a possibility that is looking more likely with the Trump administration’s push to rush the count — will create a nightmare next year and beyond. In the event the 2020 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congressional investigators urged the Census Bureau on Friday to decide soon whether to use statistical methods to adjust the 2010 census, a politically charged technique that critics say miscounts ...

The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) revealed significant errors in the 2020 Census count. As a result, certain states will be shorted in their congressional representation until after the 2030 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A historic photo of U.S. Census Bureau files in Suitland, Md., which at the time contained a card for every person in the United States. A historic photo of U.S. Census Bureau files in Suitland, Md., ...