Word: censuses
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...seemingly simple count of people, the census has always caused controversy. After a long-brewing feud, last Friday the White House and some members of Congress reached a tentative agreement about the census for the year 2000. Next year the census will be administered two different ways to two cities. In Columbia, South Carolina, residents will be subjected to the traditional census method, which is comprised of mailings and head counters who travel from house to house. At the same time in Sacramento, California, the new counting method, based on statistical sampling, that the Census takers have tried to implement...
...would a simple count cause so much controversy? It all stems from statistical sampling, the basis of the new method of census taking. Of course, statistical sampling does not sound that new to anyone who has had to sit through the QRR exam. For those of you who may have forgotten, through statistical sampling, census takers would directly count 90 percent of households and then extrapolate that data to look at the non-responders. As a result, the country could potentially save $900 million...
...census was the most expensive census ever taken, coming to a total cost of around $4 billion, and it missed more than 10 million people. Of the 290 million people in the country, only 61 percent answered the survey. While this seems like an obvious example of bureaucratic waste that must be revised, there has been strong opposition to the alternative statistical sampling method. The furor against statistical sampling arose when some Republicans released a report that said that through statistical sampling, they could lose as many as 30 seats in the House. Therefore, they claim that statistical sampling could...
...This has resulted in an artificially high proportion of Jews in the Holy City. Furthermore, East Jerusalem has been shamelessly gerrymandered to establish a fictive Jewish majority. Finally, their claim that there existed a Jewish majority in the Palestinian city in 1840 is patently false. In fact, the British Census from almost a century later, in 1931, report that only 41 percent of the residents of Jerusalem were Jewish...
...president, is expected to name a multi-party "transitional authority" Tuesday night to handle day-to-day governing. Although the U.S. is pressing Kabila to commit to multi-party elections as soon as possible, organizing a vote will not be easy given the country's decaying infrastructure and imperfect census data. "The country is bankrupt. There's not even a constitution," South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said. South African negotiators have reportedly proposed holding elections in a year's time, notes TIME's Peter Hawthorne. For the moment, though, Kinshasa residents, still exuberant over the rebels' easy victory...