Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live in overcrowded apartments, where there are limits on the number of residents, will say there are fewer people in their households because they think somehow Uncle Sam will notify their landlords and get them thrown out," Rubin says. "Sometimes women will also omit their husbabnds' names from the census because they think they will get more welfare money to take care of their children...
Rubin says evasive tactics such as the above examples skew population data, particularly those pertaining to minorities. Officials estimate that six percent of all Blacks were under-counted in the 1980 census, but that only 0.5 percent of all whites were missed. Rubin estimates that the census is losing track of more than 15 percent of Black males in some areas...
...know [the uncounted citizens] are born and that they go to school, but after that they disappear for about 20 years and resurface in census counts much later," says the Princeton graduate...
Rubin says that estimating the exact number of people missed in a census is important to government and social service officials for two reasons. "One has to do with money, and the other has to do with legislation in Congress," he says...
Representatives from New York City, for example, are rallying in support of a bill sponsored by Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D.-Calif.), which will force the Census Bureau to use statistical adjustments in the 2000 census. The bill is receiving such support, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, because New York City officials estimate that the 1980 census missed more than 800,000 New York residents, causing the metropolis to lose $25 million in federal funding...