Accuracy, efficiency and bias: The interpretation of women's work in the U.S. Census of Occupations, 1890–1940

The author uses the experience of the U.S. Bureau of the Census in collecting and reporting occupational information in the decennial census to illustrate some problems of interpretation involved in the editing of quantitative data for errors. Data from U.S. censuses from 1890 to 1940 are used (ANNOTATION)