Word: censuses
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...Welcome to Census India 2001. Late this month computers will spew out the first figures expected to confirm that India is well on its way to overtaking China as the world's most populous nation. Even before the numbers are in, everything about this count has been gigantic and controversial. The government dispatched some 2 million enumerators, or clerks, across the country to visit every village and household, including the makeshift dwellings of India's urban slums...
...They found a populace unhappy not just with being tallied but grumbling over how they were counted. Prostitutes were outraged that they had been categorized as beggars, so too were jailed criminals, smugglers and the all-important makers of rotgut liquor. (Census officials say it's because their jobs contribute nothing to the national economy, not because their activities are illegal.) India's highly visible transsexuals, known as hijras, came close to burning their saris when census officials would give no quarter on gender and listed them as men. The country's estimated 30 million Christians charged that they were...
...Santee. We are America," Mayor Randy Voepel said Monday. Like much of eastern and northern San Diego County, Santee has an "all-American" feel in a narrow '50s sort of way: good high school football, cowboy boots, lots of trucks and lots of white people. (According to the 2000 census, fewer than 10,000 of the city's 58,342 residents are not white.) A ranching area turned bedroom community through modest white flight, Santee is a conservative haven where the sight of an old-time ice cream parlor is welcome but certain other sights are not. Overt racism, luckily...
...Given the political firestorm that would undoubtedly follow such a decision, Evans was reportedly approaching this announcement with some trepidation. Thursday, the Census Bureau made Evans' life a whole lot easier, advising the secretary in no uncertain terms to reject any revised numbers. There is no evidence, the bureau's director told Evans, that adjusted figures would be any more accurate than the original numbers. Evans' final verdict, his aides insist, is not set in stone - and until it is, civil rights leaders and Democrats will pepper his office with statements opposing the bureau's recommendation...
...fact that the Census Bureau is advising against statistical sampling certainly gives Evans a degree of political cover. And beyond its symbolic meaning, Evans' decision, which is still officially on hold until next week, will have practical political repercussions as well - ones that stand to benefit the Republican party. Any ruling - which applies only to districting, not the apportionment of federal money - will mean that voter rolls in congressional districts remain tied to unadjusted census figures. If the adjusted numbers were used, Democrats and Republicans agree, Democrats could conceivably gain seats in the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives...