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Column Editors’ Note: The US Census has long been treated as a source of “ground truth,” enabling analysis of population dynamics, income distributions, and immigration patterns. For this Mining the Past article, historian Daniel Bouk analyses the struggles to create reliable census data by showing how paying attention to efforts to address “uncertainty” and “error” over time enrich our understanding of data-in-the-making.
Keywords: census, data, nonsampling error, uncertainty, history