Frustrated Sociologists Want Census Religion Question

Forward, October, 2003 by Cattan, Nacha

Cattan, Nacha Forward 10-31-2003 Jewish researchers frustrated with the trouble-plagued National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01 are calling for a question on religion to be added to the decennial United States Census. Bucking the Jewish community's historic opposition to government inquiries on religion, three leading scholars now say it may be the only way to count Jews accurately.

The reform advocates include Steven M. Cohen, senior consultant to the Jewish population survey; Jack Ukeles, a private consultant who specializes in Jewish demographic studies, and Len Saxe, co-director of the North American Jewish Data Bank at Brandeis University. The view was aired at a recent academic conference on the population survey and its fallout, held near Boston. ...

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