Table of contents for Politics and science in census taking / by Kenneth Prewitt.

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Government and Democracy, Politics and Science
Major Phases of the Census
Census Accuracy Proves Elusive
George Washington on the First Census
U.S. Resident Population, Decennial Censuses, 1790-2000
Distributional Accuracy Illustrated
Counting Americans Abroad: Challenge to Distributional Accuracy
Little League Residency Rules,
Net Undercount, 1940-1990
Census Undercount, Black/Nonblack, 1940-1990 
Unprecedented Challenges in 2000
Cost of the Census, 1970-1990
Oversight of the 2000 Census: Hearings by the House Subcommittee
on the Census
The Census Bureau Is More Than the Decennial Census, Design, Execution, Accomplishments
The 2000 Census Design
Mail-Back Response Rate: Target and Achievement
Why the Response Rate Differs From the Return Rate
Level of Census Awareness, 2000
Success of Targeted Advertising: Mail-Back Response Rate, by
Racial/Ethnic Group, 2000
Who Decides Which Count Counts
Box 6. Imputation Goes to the Supreme Court Politics and Accuracy-A Personal Comment
Table 6. Census Undercount of Minorities in 1990 and 2000 American Democracy and the Census-Looking Ahead
Box 7. Examples of What Some Saw as Intrusive Long-Form Questions References
For Further Reading Acknowledgments