Sentences with phrase «census undercount»

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The resulting undercount, critics say, could invalidate census data used to apportion congressional seats and distribute three - quarters of a trillion dollars in federal funds.

The Trump administration's plan to deal with a possible significant undercount on the 2020 U.S. census is seriously flawed, according to former agency officials and other experts in survey research.

The Supreme Court today issued its long - awaited ruling on the ongoing debate over the use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census to compensate for the undercounting of poor people and minorities in the 1990 tally.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a conference on March 27, 2011, to announce that the city would also challenge his city's census results, specifically the apparent undercounting in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.

Nevertheless, a total population estimate can be reliably (+ / -2.5 %) made and the sub-populations can be deducted to give an estimate of the male fraction, to + / -10 %, which is considerably better than the estimated 40 % undercounting suspected in the census surveys.

ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION To arrive at the estimated resident population for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, the census count (on a usual residence basis) is adjusted for instances in which Indigenous status is unknown and for net undercount.

Despite the increases in the numbers of people identifying as Indigenous in censuses, however, there are still believed to be significant undercounts occurring.