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Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II

Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II

Anderson, Margo
Seltzer, William

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ISBN10: 3031386183
ISBN13: 9783031386183
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 3 2024
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and tax decisions. It has served as an essential tool of representative democracy since 1790. The raw data from the census also serve as a decennial snapshot of the nation, a very long list, organized by household, ideally of all people resident on census day, with additional information on the name, age, race, sex, geographic location, and other characteristics for each individual.

Americans recognized early in their history that the raw data, the list, could serve additional governmental functions, and over the centuries, erected guardrails to prevent improper use. They are encapsulated in the presidential proclamations announcing the upcoming census. The information collected from individual households is for aggregated use only, and cannot be used for the taxation, regulation, or investigation of individual persons or businesses.

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