Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...
Last October, the Reagan Administration decided to reject Rubin's new statistical methods and will not adjust the 1990 census data. James Gorman, a spokesman for the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, explains, the "point was that the Census Bureau would be open to the accusation that it was manipulating figures. Also, no one was sure if [the new technique] would be operational by 1990. Some people say it's not possible to take an accurate survey of 300,000 after the 1990 census and to give it to the president, according...
There are others who charge the current administration is rejecting census readjustment for political reasons, because a statistical modification of population numbers may give the Democrats more power in the House, according to a graduate student working with Rubin...
...face of such arguments, however, the Reagan Administration continues to stand firmly against census modification, and whether or not the new research will ever be implemented remains a mystery to Rubin and his cohorts...
...census bureau says it could not do it in 1980 because it didn't have the tools," Rubin says. "Now we have the technology, and it is just a question of the timing." Population Category 1950 1960 1970 1980 Total population 3.3 2.7 2.2 0.5-1.4 Male 3.8 3.3 3.1 N.A. Female 2.8 2.2 1.4 N.A. Legally resident population N.A. N.A. N.A. 0.5 Male N.A. N.A. N.A. 1.5 Female N.A. N.A. N.A. -0.4 Black population 9.7 8.0 7.6 5.3 Male 11.2 9.7 10.1 8.0 Female 8.2 6.3 5.3 2.7 White and other races population 2.5 2.1 1.5 -0.2 Male...