Excerpt from The Federal Census: Critical Essays by Members of the American Economic Association
The Association at its Cleveland meeting in December, 1897, authorized the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the scope and method of the eleventh census, with a view of determining what ought to be attempted at the next. This Committee was duly appointed, and begs to report as follows:
The Committee determined to undertake a review of the eleventh census; and for this purpose it invited various members of the Association and others to cooperate by preparing critical articles on particular portions of the census. In order to extend this cooperation still further, and especially to discover what might seem weak points in the eleventh census, and inquiries desirable to be elaborated in the twelfth, it addressed a circular letter to all the members of the Association asking them to reply to certain questions.
'Presented to the Association, December 23, 1898.
The letter was as follows:
Dear Sir: - At the meeting of the Association in Cleveland, Dec. 29-31, 1897, a committee was appointed to consider The Scope and Method of the Twelfth Census. The committee proposes to make a study of the methods and results of the last census for the purpose of suggesting what may reasonably be expected from the next. The effort, however, will be constructive rather than destructive, its chief object being to form an intelligent public opinion upon this important scientific undertaking, - the most important of the kind in the world. The committee has secured the cooperation of a number of members of the Association interested in particular portions of the subject.
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