Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are others who charge the current administration is rejecting census readjustment for political reasons, because a statistical modification of population numbers may give the Democrats more power in the House, according to a graduate student working with Rubin...
...Vincent Barabba, former director of the Census Bureau under the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations says that adjusting undercounted groups is generally advisable--at least for future censuses...
...would have suggested to them that they use the research but not use it until the [1990] census was over. They need to look at the figures before proposing an adjustment, but it should be a [permanent policy in the future]," Barabba says...
...face of such arguments, however, the Reagan Administration continues to stand firmly against census modification, and whether or not the new research will ever be implemented remains a mystery to Rubin and his cohorts...
...census bureau says it could not do it in 1980 because it didn't have the tools," Rubin says. "Now we have the technology, and it is just a question of the timing." Population Category 1950 1960 1970 1980 Total population 3.3 2.7 2.2 0.5-1.4 Male 3.8 3.3 3.1 N.A. Female 2.8 2.2 1.4 N.A. Legally resident population N.A. N.A. N.A. 0.5 Male N.A. N.A. N.A. 1.5 Female N.A. N.A. N.A. -0.4 Black population 9.7 8.0 7.6 5.3 Male 11.2 9.7 10.1 8.0 Female 8.2 6.3 5.3 2.7 White and other races population 2.5 2.1 1.5 -0.2 Male...