Word: undercount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Rubin admits, solving the undercount problem involves more than just locating lazy census respondents. He says that the Department of Commerce realizes it misses those people who intentionally misrepresent the number of people in their households on their reports, as well as those who do not mail in any census forms...
...undercount rates by race and sex from demographic analysis, 1950 to 1980 decennial censuses (estimated population minus census population as a percentage of estimated population...
...problem existing in nonresponse surveys, he says, occurs in polls like the Census which "undercount minorities" because of nonresponses...
...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...
...census bureau has traditionally, after finishing its count, made estimates of the undercount through comparative examinations of old census reports, birth and death records, and immigration reports. "Now, though, the bureau is under pressure to find a way to make these estimates before the enumeration is complete, and somehow incorporate these figures into the count," census official Charles D. Jones said yesterday...