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 ...

WASHINGTON — Negotiators from the White House and Speaker Newt Gingrich’s office have reached a tentative agreement that would allow the Census Bureau to test its hotly debated new method for ...

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 ...

With respect to the recent controversy about the national census, there is another side to the problem. It has been stated that only 57 percent of households in the City of Buffalo returned their ...

Governors of Florida and other high-growth states with large mobile and minority populations should unite with the U.S. Census Bureau to appeal an extremely harmful ruling to the Supreme Court. Unless ...

A day after a federal court declared illegal the Clinton administration’s planned use of a controversial counting method for the Year 2000 Census, officials on Tuesday angered opponents by continuing ...

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" ...

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 ...

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.