This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United S

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization o

Among the 128.3 million workers in the U.S. in 2000, 76% drove alone to work. In addition, 12% carpooled, 4.7 used public transportation, 3.3% worked at home, 2

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and su