Dealing a setback to the Clinton administration’s efforts to significantly change the way the 2000 census will be conducted, the Supreme Court on Monday said a controversial method of counting the ...

A plan to modernize the U.S. Census that many experts say would vastly improve the count of America’s millions was ruled illegal Monday by a federal court panel in Washington. Census Bureau officials ...

WASHINGTON — Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court yesterday rejected the Clinton administration’s plan to use statistical sampling to make up for individuals who get overlooked in the 2000 census. The ...

In another legal setback for the Clinton administration, a second federal court has ruled against the White House’s plan to use statistical sampling in the year 2000 census. The Supreme Court already ...

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 ...

Credit U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays of Stamford with integrity and a little courage in bucking his party’s leadership to make the next U.S. Census as accurate as possible. GOP congressional leaders ...

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out using statistical sampling to adjust the results of the 2010 census, quelling Republican concerns and ...

In a divided ruling likely to leave millions of blacks, Hispanics and children uncounted, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Clinton administration plan that would have allowed for limited ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The people of India are being counted one by one for the ongoing population census, but our national animal is much more elusive. The just-completed tiger census - which estimates that about 1706 big ...