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Testimony and Papers on Adjusting the US Census

These files are in portable document format (.pdf).

  1. Executive Steering Committee for A.C.E. Policy, Bureau of the Census, 2001. Report and links to supporting documents.

  2. Brown, L.D., Eaton, M.L., Freedman, D.A., Klein, S.P., Olshen, R.A., Wachter, K.A., Wells, M.T., and Ylvisaker, D., 1999. Statistical Controversies in Census 2000, Technical Report 537, Department of Statistics, U.C. Berkeley.

  3. Coffey, J.L., 1998. Summary of testimony on census undercount adjustment, 5 May 1998 Hearing of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  4. Coffee, J.L., 1998. Response to 25 questions from Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Ranking Minority Member, US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  5. Coffee, J.L., 1998. Response to 5 questions from Rep. Dan Miller, Chair, US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  6. Darga, Kenneth, 1998. Summary of testimony on census undercount adjustment, 5 May 1998 Hearing of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  7. Darga, Kenneth, 1998. "Straining Out Gnats and Swallowing Camels: The Perils of Adjusting for Census Undercount," and "Quantifying Measurement Error and Bias in the 1990 Undercount Estimates."
    (submitted as testimony to the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census on 5/5/98.)

  8. Darga, Kenneth, 1998. Response to 25 questions from Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Ranking Minority Member, US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  9. Items in the debate between K. Darga and the Census Bureau regarding census adjustment, 1998.

  10. Darga, Kenneth, 2001. Summary of Fixing the Census until it Breaks

  11. Darga, Kenneth, 2001. Alternative adjustment factors for the 1990 Census (.zip file).

  12. Eaton, M.L., Freedman, D.A., Klein, S.P., Olshen, R.A., Wachter, K.W., and Ylvisaker,D. 1997.
    Planning for the census in the year 2000: an update, Technical Report 484, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.

  13. Freedman, D.A., P.B. Stark, and K.W. Wachter, 1999. A model for correlation bias, heterogeneity, and ratio estimator bias in census adjustment, Tech. Rept. 557, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.

  14. Stark, P.B., 1998. Written testimony regarding census adjustment, 5 May 1998 Hearing of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  15. Stark, P.B., 1998. Response to 25 questions from Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Ranking Minority Member, US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.

  16. Stark, P.B., 1999. Sampling to adjust the U.S. Census. Seminar presented 12 January 1999, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Berkeley, CA.

  17. Stark, P.B., 1999. Letter to the Editor of USA Today.

  18. Stark, P.B., 1999. The 1990 and 2000 Census Adjustment Plans, Technical Report 550, Dept. of Statistics, U.C. Berkeley (revised 11 May 2000).

Last modified 24 August 2014. P.B. Stark. statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Census/index.htm