1. INFO 4470/ILRLE 4470 Social and Economic Data The 2010 Census of Population John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber January 26, 2011

2. See Lecture 2 Online Material Census Announcement Census Questionnaire Census Video on Apportionment The Huntington-Hill Algorithm Other Methods

3. The Huntington-Hill Method Has the property that it allocates representatives based on making the number of persons per representative as close as possible for the fixed number of representatives to be allocated. Ideally, the number of persons represented by each member of congress should be equal. The Huntington-Hill method has the property that no representative can be changed between two states and bring both states’ population-to- representative ratio closer to the average.