Drawing Statistical Inferences from Historical Census Data, 1850-1950.

Virtually all quantitative microdata used by social scientists derive from samples that incorporate clustering, stratification, and weighting adjustments (Kish 1965, 1992). Such data can yield standard error estimates that differ dramatically from those derived from a simple random sample of the sam...

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Published in:	Demography Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 589 - 604
Main Authors:	Davern, Michael, Ruggles, Steven, Swenson, Tami, Alexander, J. Trent, Oakes, J. Michael
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. August 2009
Subjects:	History of the United States census Probability theory Error analysis in mathematics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost