It's great to see my opinion on the proposed elimination of marital status from the long-form census confirmed, with much more understanding, context and background, by an eminent statistician and demographer, Justin Wolfers, in the New York Times!
"Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms" (NYT 12/31/14)
Wolfers reviews what the American Community Survey and its predecessors do about marriage and divorce, what other sources of data are out there and how they work (and don't work), and why the data is crucial for both progressives and conservatives who are concerned about families.
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