Word: undercount
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Chicago judge ruled earlier this month that the Census Bureau had missed a substantial portion of the city's Black population and ordered the Bureau to submit a "statistically defensible" method of including the undercount in its total...
Hixson said that the city's transients and illegal immigrants are responsible for many of the unreturned forms. "I wouldn't be surprised if students also had a big impact on the undercount," said Hixson. College students are considered legal residents of Cambridge, even if they file census forms in their hometowns, he added...
...symptoms can be confused not only with those of scarlet fever but also with those of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments. While the illness is still considered rare, Bell says: "There's no question that 650 cases is an undercount...
...through 18 states, districts, and territories that stretched from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Armed with their own quill pens, the 650 census takers of 1790 spent 18 months counting the American people. The total: 3,929,214. President George Washington, however suspected an undercount. In a letter to Gouverneur Morris, then U.S. Commissioner to Great Britain, Washington worried about the "indolence of the mass, and want of activity" by many census takers. Proof of this thesis: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was in charge of the tally, had to sign his own name...