Word: censuses
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Earlier this week Siegel said that the Census Bureau was now planning to use "irregular, unusual devices" in the 1970 Census to overcome the short count of non-whites. He said the new tactics would include enlistment of shopkeepers, canvassing during early morning hours, and the saturation of some areas with census takers. The Bureau also intends to change its philosophy in ghetto areas by counting a maximum of residents instead of seeking to avoid duplication...
...Conference on Social Statistics and the City noted that the Census was explicitly designed to provide the basis for representation in the House of Representatives, but had come to provide the basis on which Federal funds are allocated in many areas...
...most significant paper presented at the Conference was by Jacob Siegel, chief of the Census Bureau's National Population and Estimates branch. He showed that one-tenth of the Negro population was missed in the 1960 Census and that among young Negro males the rate was as high...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Joint Center, spoke for the Conference in a letter to Carl D. Perkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee: "Such substantial undercounting of minority groups raises a new order of question. The census count is the basis on which legislation is apportioned and by which great sums of public funds are allocated. A member of a group significantly underrepresented and concentrated in special neighborhoods might well claim a violation of his Constitutional right to equal representation and protection...
While American population statistics are among the very finest in the world, papers presented to the Conference have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and to a lesser degree, the Vital Statistics of the United States, seriously and significantly under-enumerate or under-estimate the size of the Negro, Puerto-Rican and Mexican-American populations. As much as 10 per cent of the Negro population may not have been counted in the 1960 Census, and there is considerable probability that the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American were similarly under-counted...