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A 6 page paper discussing application of descriptive statistics to incomes in New York and Texas as reported by the US Census Bureau. The paper does not provide figures beyond mean and standard deviation, but it discusses those two values in addition to median, mode, range, confidence interval, t-test and ANOVA. The paper includes a table providing Census data of incomes in the two states in 1999. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSstatDescr.rtf
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largest collectors of data is the US Census Bureau. Instructed by the Constitution to regularly take a census of the United States, the Census Bureau conducts its count of
the American people every ten years. This is the only source of demographic data that does not originate with a sample taken from a population and then applied to
the total population from which the sample was taken. Rather, it is the mission of the Census Bureau to count every individual residing within Americas borders. Sampling
Because the result is so detailed and complete, several organizations and agencies solicit the Census Bureau to add questions of interest in specific use.
The result of these additions - questions such as driving time to work, age by race or ethnicity, income by education level and many others - is that the full
questionnaire is lengthy and time consuming. The Census Bureau has taken to randomly selecting one of six households to complete the "long form," which in 2000 consisted of about
10 pages of detailed questions. The long form survey is too long and too cumbersome to use for all households, so most complete a short form that takes only
a few minutes. Selection of the sample asked to complete the long form is performed by the Census Bureau. In past censuses,
the Census Bureau has mailed forms to households known to it, then sent out field workers hired in the local area to contact those households that have not responded.
In the future, the Census Bureau believes that all headcount efforts will take place online, that the census of 2000 was the last that will be paper based. Regardless
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