29-01-2010, 01:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-01-2010, 02:13 AM by Bruce Clemens.)
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/margo/www/go...apaper.htm
At these finer levels of disagregation the operational value of mesodata in locating a target population was clear to both the users and producers of 1940 Census mesodata on Japanese Americans. For example, during the January 1942 Census Advisory Committee meeting the following colloquy took place between Dr. Leon Truesdell, Bureau’s chief population statistician, Dr. Virgil Reed, the Bureau’s assistant director, and Director Capt:
Dr. Truesdell: ... We got a request yesterday, for example, from one of the Navy officers in Los Angeles, wanting figures in more or less geographic detail for the Japanese residents in Los Angeles, and we are getting that out....
Dr. Reed: [Commenting on all the hard work occasioned by numerous requests for data on the Japanese, Germans, and Italians] ... and some of them wanted them by much finer divisions than States and cities; some of them wanted, I believe several of them, them by census tract even.
Dr. Truesdell: That Los Angeles request I just referred to asked for census tracts.
The Director: We think it is pretty valuable. Those who got it thought they were pretty valuable. That is, if they knew there were 801 Japs in a community and only found 800 of them, then they have something to check up on....
[Census Advisory Committee, January 1942: 20-21]1
[URL="https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/margo/www/govstat/Seltzer-AndersonPAA2007paper3-12-2007.doc"]
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/margo/www/go...2-2007.doc[/URL]
[size=12]After we documented the information available as of early 2000 on the Bureau’s involvement in the roundup of Japanese Americans (Seltzer and Anderson, 2000), the then Census director Prewitt (2000, cited in US Census Bureau, 2005, p.16) wrote,[/SIZE]
The historical record is clear that senior Census Bureau staff proactively cooperated with the internment, and that census tabulations were directly implicated in the denial of civil rights to citizens of the United States who happened also to be of Japanese ancestry.
http://www.toad.com/gnu/census2.japanese.1943.png
At these finer levels of disagregation the operational value of mesodata in locating a target population was clear to both the users and producers of 1940 Census mesodata on Japanese Americans. For example, during the January 1942 Census Advisory Committee meeting the following colloquy took place between Dr. Leon Truesdell, Bureau’s chief population statistician, Dr. Virgil Reed, the Bureau’s assistant director, and Director Capt:
Dr. Truesdell: ... We got a request yesterday, for example, from one of the Navy officers in Los Angeles, wanting figures in more or less geographic detail for the Japanese residents in Los Angeles, and we are getting that out....
Dr. Reed: [Commenting on all the hard work occasioned by numerous requests for data on the Japanese, Germans, and Italians] ... and some of them wanted them by much finer divisions than States and cities; some of them wanted, I believe several of them, them by census tract even.
Dr. Truesdell: That Los Angeles request I just referred to asked for census tracts.
The Director: We think it is pretty valuable. Those who got it thought they were pretty valuable. That is, if they knew there were 801 Japs in a community and only found 800 of them, then they have something to check up on....
[Census Advisory Committee, January 1942: 20-21]1
[URL="https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/margo/www/govstat/Seltzer-AndersonPAA2007paper3-12-2007.doc"]
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/margo/www/go...2-2007.doc[/URL]
[size=12]After we documented the information available as of early 2000 on the Bureau’s involvement in the roundup of Japanese Americans (Seltzer and Anderson, 2000), the then Census director Prewitt (2000, cited in US Census Bureau, 2005, p.16) wrote,[/SIZE]
The historical record is clear that senior Census Bureau staff proactively cooperated with the internment, and that census tabulations were directly implicated in the denial of civil rights to citizens of the United States who happened also to be of Japanese ancestry.
http://www.toad.com/gnu/census2.japanese.1943.png
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