Robert Groves

WASHINGTON -- The head of the U.S. Census Bureau hammered the House of Representatives on Friday for passing a bill that he said "devastates" the nati...

In this day and age, why is 'Negro' included as a race on the 2010 Census form? I hope to explore this and many more issues as my training as a Census Bureau Crew Leader begins.

My National Journal column for this week looks at the "modeling" that underlies both online panel surveys and all pre-election polling. Please click t...

On Friday's edition of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," Census Bureau Director Robert Groves apologized to a caller for the "negro" classification on th...

The number of boxes we check on the Census depends on the ways in which we think about race and ethnicity as well as the material resources and privileges attached to those ways of thinking.

A press briefing on Monday by Census Director Robert Groves produced an Associate Press report that focused on the overall participation rate and lack...

On a morning full of big political news -- the apparent death of the health reform bill, a Supreme Court decision ending restrictions on corporate cam...

Following up on yesterday's column and my additional comments on the Huffington Post's requests for response rate data from pollsters last fall, I wan...

Henry Ferrell and Ed Kilgore respond to Conor Clarke's case against polls. Conor Clarke asks why we care about polls; Ryan Sager offers an answer (via...

President Obama does not want the political distraction of Republicans screaming that the Democrats have "fixed" the Census to produce a partisan result.

(Late update:  The Senate confirms Robert Groves as Census Director on a voice vote following a 76-15 vote to end debate - details below). My col...

Roll Call (gated) identifies Shelby and Vitter as the Republican senators that placed the mysterious "hold" on the confirmation of Robert Groves as Ce...

Too good to hold for the next "outliers" feature: Monday night's Colbert Report had a segment on the U.S. Census that even includes a reference on on-...

Texas based Republican pollster David Hill is speaking out in favor of confirming Bob Groves as director of the U.S. Census Bureau and against the mys...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count,...

At least one unnamed Republican Senator continues to place a "hold" on the nomination of Robert Groves, and no one seems to know why. According to a ...

ABC's Gary Langer reports that a mystery senator has put a "hold" on the nomination of Robert Groves: Three weeks after Robert M. Groves sailed thr...

Bob Groves' confirmation hearings were held today (5/15). C-SPAN has the hearings at the link below. Grove's opening statement is well worth listening...

Some updates and a bit more background on the nomination Robert Groves to run the Census Bureau announced on Thursday. First, in addition to the Assoc...

In the survey world, this is very big news (from AP via The Page): President Barack Obama is tapping Robert M. Groves, a University of Michigan pro...

Another in series of brief interviews conducted at this week's AAPOR Conference, this one on the topic of what to make of survey non-response rate fro...

First, let me say a quick but huge thank you to Charles Franklin for his frequent posts over the last two weeks as I took much needed holiday break a...