WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count. Robert M. Groves, a veteran survey researcher from the ...

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 ...

Margaret Warner explores the continuing controversy of sampling when determining the 2000 U.S. census numbers. The U.S. Census Bureau worked particularly hard last year to count every American. With a ...

When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn't find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the ...

A botched decennial census — a possibility that is looking more likely with the Trump administration’s push to rush the count — will create a nightmare next year and beyond. In the event the 2020 ...

EVEN WITHOUT POLITICS, THE CENSUS IS STUPENDOUSLY difficult. Just before April 1 of next year, the Census Bureau will mail about 94 million questionnaires to American households and deliver an ...

The 2020 census is headed for a debacle, and California is among the states most likely to be victimized by it. Every 10 years, the Constitution requires the federal government to “enumerate” the ...

Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their way The administration claims it has "no plans" ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out using statistical sampling to adjust the results of the 2010 census, apparently quelling Republican ...

When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn’t find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the ...