Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precinct in Cambridge had 1877 inhabitants according to Federal figures, but only 823 by the state tally. Brode said that in 1972 the number of registered voters exceeded the state census total...
Lewis said that most of the cities and towns in the state showed wide variations between the two surveys. He said that in Lowell, for instance, the census takers didn't count anyone under 17, so the figures were completely wrong...
...largest discrepancy showed in the town of Harvard, which has a high military population. The Federal census showed a population of 13,000 in the town, while the state figures were about 3000 -- a difference of about 75 per cent...
Brode said yesterday that Cambridge census takers had not counted many young people who live in apartments in the city because they thought they were students...
John Brode '52, chairman of the Democratic City Committee, said that the original figure for the state census of Cambridge was 29,000 lower than the Federal figure because Cambridge didn't count students...