"The United States census provides researchers, students, and the public with some of the richest and broadest … information available about the American people. Exploring the U.S. Census by Frank Donnelly gives social science students and … researchers alike the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze data from the decennial census, the American Community …

Over the last several years, the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program at the US Census Bureau has partnered …

Introduction -- The census and the new nation: apportionment, Congress, and the progress of the United States … -- Sectional crisis and census reform in the 1850s -- Counting slaves and freedmen: war and reconstruction by the numbers -- The … census and industrial America in the Gilded Age -- Building the federal statistical system in the early twentieth century …