Word: counts
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Earlier this week Siegel said that the Census Bureau was now planning to use "irregular, unusual devices" in the 1970 Census to overcome the short count of non-whites. He said the new tactics would include enlistment of shopkeepers, canvassing during early morning hours, and the saturation of some areas with census takers. The Bureau also intends to change its philosophy in ghetto areas by counting a maximum of residents instead of seeking to avoid duplication...
...Statistics, have come to be the basis for a host of public activities, and most particularly provide the basis on which public funds are allocated in a whole range of government programs at the national, state, and local level. In some cases funds are allocated on a straight "head count" basis. In other cases, as for example the Economic Development Act, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and in the Model Cities legislation, public funds are allocated on the basis of population together with a range of special economic and other information collected by government agencies...
...Conference wishes to encourage the Bureau of the Census to explore more flexible personnel procedures from the standpoint first, of enlarging the number of people who can be located to serve usefully as regular enumerators and, second, to employ people in various auxiliary roles to help insure completeness of count...
...figures indicating that the enemy's total strength has risen from 280,000 to 296,000 in the past six months. But these totals include administrative cadres, line-of-supply forces and part-time guerrillas, and there is endless room for argument about definitions as well as the count. Saigon headquarters sometimes uses the highest possible figures on enemy strength in support of arguments for more U.S. troops, then is naively surprised when the U.S. public figures the war can't be going very well if the enemy keeps getting statistically stronger...
...preparing 2,700 Americans for life in 44 different lands. The Peace Corps is relying on the Experiment to prepare 174 volunteers for duty in Afghanistan, Brazil, and Iran, has sent it 1,500 trainees in all since 1961. A score of colleges and universities, including Pomona and Dartmouth, count on it to manage their overseas studies program...