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1. 1. www.hartfordinfo.org

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   Published on: 2/7/2008   Last Visited: 3/2/2008

   Margo J. Anderson, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of several books and papers on the census and reapportionment, said it's hardly a new question.
   
   "It's an old issue.It goes back to 1790," she said.

2. 2. Current Officers — Social Science History Association

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 5/25/2008

   Margo Anderson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (History and Urban Studies)

3. 3. www.eurekalert.org

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   Published on: 3/23/2007   Last Visited: 3/31/2007

   Margo Anderson, professor of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and William Seltzer, a senior research scholar in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University, will present findings from their study, "Census Confidentiality under the Second War Powers Act (1942-1947)" today at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in New York City.
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   Seltzer and Anderson say the Census Bureau complied with a 1943 request by the U.S. Treasury Department for a list of all persons of Japanese ancestry in the Washington, D.C., area as recorded in the 1940 census.
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   The bureau also disclosed information about other persons counted in the 1940 census to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, say Seltzer and Anderson, as well as information about businesses and other establishments to war planning agencies, such as the Office of Emergency Management.
   
   Whether the Census Bureau provided individually identifiable information on Japanese Americans during World War II has been a highly contested matter for decades, say Seltzer and Anderson, and the controversy was reignited in 2004 when it was reported that the Census Bureau had provided zip-code level data from the 2000 census on persons of Arab American ancestry to the Department of Homeland Security.
   
   Although the bureau broke no law, since the Second War Powers Act permitted such disclosures, ethical questions linger about these World War II disclosures and about the Census Bureau providing small-area geographical data pertaining to potentially vulnerable populations to other governmental agencies.
   
   The case has important implications for the upcoming 2010 census because the Census Bureau depends on public trust to succeed in its mission.Seltzer and Anderson also call for the bureau to disavow its denials of the disclosures and to set the bureau's historical record straight.
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   Seltzer and Anderson first wrote about the Census Bureau's role in federal internment of Japanese Americans during World War II in a paper presented in 2000.
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   Margo Anderson, who received her PhD in history from Rutgers University, is a professor of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.She is the author or co-author of several books about the U.S. Census, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and immediate past president of the Social Science History Association.