Prominent New York Democrats called on President-elect George W. Bush’s nominee for commerce secretary yesterday to use scientific sampling in the new census to correct what they predict will be a ...

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 ...

Try dropping the words "statistical sampling" while in conversation with a Republican politician and watch the sizzle. Why does such a nerdy blending of adjective and noun inflame GOP lawmakers like ...

Credit U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays of Stamford with integrity and a little courage in bucking his party’s leadership to make the next U.S. Census as accurate as possible. GOP congressional leaders ...

While Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue high-stakes maneuvering over the 2000 census, Arizona has sent Washington a defiant message on what kind of numbers will — and will not — be ...

Trying to count every one of the 260 million-plus people who reside in the United States is a literally impossible task. No matter how much time, money and effort the Census Bureau expends, it can ...

Dec. 29, 2000 — -- Even before the Census Bureau released figures this week that will shuffle the number of seats many states have in Congress, Washington was roiling over a second set of numbers ...

Census 2000 failed to count 509,012 Californians, more than half of them in the Southland, according to a set of much-debated, statistically revised figures released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The White House and House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s office have reached a tentative agreement to let the Census Bureau test its hotly debated method for estimating the country’s population, officials ...