Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...census bureau counted 7.033 million people, but the Department of City Planning estimates that eight million people live in the city...
About 254,000 housing units, or one in 13, were skipped by census-takers, meaning they undercounted the city's population by 800,000 to one million, the mayor said...
...census placed the city's population at 7.07 million, and the census bureau later admitted it had missed about 450,000 people, Dinkins said. By 1987, the city had grown by another 280,000 people, he said...
...statistically stunning and demographically absurd for the Census Bureau to claim that a city whose resident birth rate has risen by at least 23 percent and which has welcomed more than 800,000 legal immigrants to its shores during the past decade has actually lost population," he said at a news conference...
...letter to Sheila Grimm, regional director of the Census Bureau, Dinkins asked the bureau to review 11,900 city blocks--about 43 percent of the city's more than 28,000 residential blocks...