Chapter 2. Roles of the Census

Authors

  • Frank Donnelly

Abstract

Chapter 2 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 4), “Roles of the Census,” summarizes the role of the census in US society: its uses in politics for reapportionment, redistricting, and distributing federal funds; its applications for business, public health, and social science research; and its importance as a free and open dataset.

Author Biography

Frank Donnelly

Frank Donnelly is the GIS and Data Librarian at Brown University Library in Providence, Rhode Island, where he supports geospatial and demographic research on campus and coordinates the library’s data services program. He is an affiliated staff member of the Population Studies Training Center (PSTC) and the author of Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data as well as several articles and reports on census data and the geography of US public libraries. Visit his website to learn more about his work: https://atcoordinates.info/.

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Published

2022-06-06

Issue

Vol. 58 No. 4 (2022): May/June

Section

Chapters