| 书目名称 | Use and Misuse of the United States Census | | 副标题 | The Role of Data in | | 编辑 | Margo Anderson,William Seltzer | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Integrates the technical history of data collection, with the ethical and policy issues of official statistics.Educates a lay audience insight of the decision making of data collection and its impact. | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .The U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and tax decisions. It has served as an essential tool of representative democracy since 1790. The raw data from the census also serve as a decennial snapshot of the nation, a very long list, organized by household, ideally of all people resident on census day, with additional information on the name, age, race, sex, geographic location, and other characteristics for each individual. .Americans recognized early in their history that the raw data, the list, could serve additional governmental functions, and over the centuries, erected guardrails to prevent improper use. They are encapsulated in the presidential proclamations announcing the upcoming census. The information collected from individual households is for aggregated use only, and cannot be used for the “taxation, regulation, or investigation” of individual persons or businesses. .Americans have heeded the call to “stand up and be counted.” They also engage in an ongoing conve | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | census; Statistical Confidentiality; Surveillance; Racial Targeting; World War II; Internal Security; Memo | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38619-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-38621-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-38619-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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