Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Book in eleventh century England, census officals have had to face the fact that they cannot possibly include everyone in a national roll call. The problem has continued through the ages up to today, as current government people-counters realize that the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial national head-count is in no way completely accurate...
...dynamics after a normal U.S. census is taken by mail, said Rubin, who has been at Harvard for four years. The scientists, who include Rubin, Assistant Professor of Statistics Hal Stern and four graduate students, then use the results from these segmented studies to adjust the census' total population count...
...would take the information from the census, which people mail in regarding numbers [of persons living] in houses, and would then send people to the same houses to take a new, more exact count. Then we would compare the two counts and arrive at a different adjustment factor for each population block--such as Black males or white, elderly women. By applying those numbers to national statistics, we would adjust for the names missed in the national mailing," says Rubin, who has worked with the Census Bureau on statistical problems several times over the last 10 years...
...other states, such as California, where a high number of illegal immigrants refuse to respond to the national census, cities are not receiving enough federal funding to provide adequate social services for their residents, since federal money is doled out based on a falsely low federal head-count...
With the score tied at one last Friday, Colgate's Mark Holmes had an open shot in the right circle 11 minutes in the middle period. Holmes didn't count on defenseman Jerry Pawloski clearing the puck out before Holmes could get his shot...