TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - The Census and the Federal Statistical System: Historical Perspectives
JO  - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
A1  - Anderson, M.
SP  - 152
EP  - 162
VL  - 631
IS  - 1
N2  - This article provides an overview of one major platform of the federal statistical system, the census. It briefly describes the origin and structure of the current diverse and decentralized U.S. federal statistical system and then describes the place of the census and the Census Bureau in the system. It treats the census in the context of the demographic and political history of the nation and discusses how the demographic and political history of the nation both has fostered and complicated the development of the system.<p />
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SN  - 0002-7162
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716210373721
ID  - ref1
ER  -