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...aspect of such events is how quickly they come and go. People are borne backward in air and then are suddenly dropped on their seats. The ground is dry again, the stadium walls are cemented, the dead have been carted away. Were it not for the holes in the census, one would never know that a disaster took place, so smoothly does the earth seal its fissures. Even memory, which honors and cherishes the dead, recalls nothing of the rage except that it existed, that it was awful feeling like paper in a storm, even of one's own manufacture...
...down and verify new statistics. "Every call to a government agency," says Savageau, "uncovered ten other statistics we could use." The authors also devised their own formulas. To gauge climate, for example, they developed a complex scheme relating relative humidity to seasonal variations in temperature. To update the 1980 census, they turned to such sources as IRS change-of-address lists. One discovery: the Sunbelt may have oversold its desirability. Address changes for the past two years show % the Northeast has been gaining population while the West has been losing it. Conclude the authors: "Not only did our (older) cities...
...support her claims, the Columbia political science professor takes advantage of a wealth of census data showing the movement of women into the labor force and higher education, revolutions in contraception and increased life expectancy since the turn of the century. She uses a Center for Population Studies survey of the American electorate following the presidential elections from 1972 to 1980 to prove the emergence of a women's vote...
...celebrated in The National Archives of the United States (Abrams; 289 pages; $49.50), with a knowledgeable text by Herman J. Viola, director of the National Anthropological Archives and photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Presidential papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money...
...problem existing in nonresponse surveys, he says, occurs in polls like the Census which "undercount minorities" because of nonresponses...