WASHINGTON (AP) Commerce Secretary Don Evans stripped the Census Bureau on Friday from deciding whether to adjust the 2000 head count to protect against an undercount of minorities and the poor. Evans ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans used preliminary estimates showing the 2000 census accounted for a higher percentage of Americans than 1990 to fuel their arguments that raw population numbers do not need ...

Stumping on his platform of "compassionate conservatism," George W. Bush reached out to minorities, promising over and over again that he would work hard to make sure every American has a voice. Mr.

WASHINGTON — Several Republicans are questioning whether the Census Bureau should release a second population count--this one more politically sensitive--to account for historically undercounted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congressional investigators urged the Census Bureau on Friday to decide soon whether to use statistical methods to adjust the 2010 census, a politically charged technique that critics say miscounts ...

President Obama will today announce that he has chosen potentially-polarizing University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves to become census director, according to the Associated Press. Groves, a ...

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.

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 ...