Use and Misuse of the United States Census (PDF)

Margo Anderson is Distinguished Professor Emerita [History & Urban Studies] at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She specializes in American social, urban and women's history and has research interests in both urban history and the history of the social sciences and the development of statistical data systems, particularly the census. Her publications include the second edition of The American Census: A Social History (Yale University Press, 2015); Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census: From the Constitution to the American Community Survey (ACS), 2d ed.(Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2011), coedited with Constance F. Citro and Joseph J. Salvo; and a coedited volume with Victor Greene, Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past (University of Illinois Press, 2009). With UWM Professor Amanda Seligman, she is Lead Editor of the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. In 2006 she served as the President of the Social Science History Association.



William Seltzer's career spanned over a half century in a variety of positions as an official statistician in United States and abroad, and in international statistical agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau, The Population Council, and the United Nations Statistics Division, where he was Chief of Demographic and Social Statistics (1974-86) and Director from 1986 to 1994. From 1995, until his retirement in 2011, he held the position of Senior Research Scholar at Fordham University. He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and chaired the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics. He served as a Consultant to the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1996), was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population and Demography, and served as chair of its panel on data collection. His pre­sentations and publications include studies of demographic measurement, statistical organization and policy, the interface between human rights and