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...Nathan Keyfitz, the director of Harvard's Center for Population Studies and a recent adviser to the United States Census Bureau on ways to accurately adjust its population count, said yesterday that a recent court ruling on census undercounts "may result in basic reinterpretations of the Constitution...
...Constitution says that the population shall "be enumerated.' "In the past, the Justice Department has interpreted the enumerated to be only those who were actually counted, without including the undercount as an official part of the census," Keyfitz said...
...matches census files with other administrative files such as medicare and social security and may account for some who were missed by the census. People may often avoid the census for one reason, but that same reason may not prevent them from being registered on some other government files," Keyfitz said...
...census has been especially inaccurate in enumerating the Black population," Keyfitz said, citing figures to show that in 1970, when the white undercount was 1.9 per cent, the black undercount was 7.7 per cent...
...Keyfitz has agreed to remain as chairman until the review is completed, because no one else would take the position, he said...