Census Offers Statistics on Older Americans Cheers.

Why is the census important? Policy mplications of the 2010 Census. Also, here is an interesting downloadable word doc:The Census: A Brief History Cheers.

Here is an NPR radio segment about the upcoming 2010 census. I especially like this comment about the piece: “It is always disheartening to witness otherwise intelligent, capable leaders engage in ideology induced idiocy as Mr. Gingrich did while talking about sampling and statistical methods. Statistical procedures, which include simple frequency counts, can be manipulated…

I’ve recently become fascinated by politics of the Census, and, with a Census coming up in 2010, I think it’s a perfect topic for StatsInTheWild. Politics and the census have been an issue for decades. Here is a piece from the New York Times from August 1909. In it, they cite a letter from President…

Obama to nominate sampling expert to head census