American Families

ISBN: 9781330386156 出版年：2016 页码：255 Paul C Glick Forgotten Books

It is the first business of the Bureau of the Census to put into print the census results that directly answer as many such questions as possible. Along with'these results, Similar data from one or two previous censuses are usually included. Limitations of time, space, and money prevent any extensive statement of the relations between particular results, the long term trends of Significant totals and subtotals, the Shifting proportions of the people belonging to different categories, various interesting and impor tant relations such as those between 1ncome, occupation, and age. It is not that the Bureau of the Census fails in any sense to appreciate the value and need for such analyses, but rather that it must concentrate on its basic concern with the summary statistics that constitute its unique contribution to knowledge.