Controversy and litigation surround the plan to use dual-systems estimation and sampling for the U.S. 2000 census. This article analyzes this conflict in terms of the history and technical development of the census, and attempts to create a basis for its resolution.

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© 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
1999
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