Sentences with phrase «as federal census»

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Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

For its part, the federal government, from the earliest census in 1790 to the creation of New Deal social welfare programs, has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data to distribute resources and administer benefits.

The census results are used to determine how many Congressional representatives each state is allotted, as well as federal funding.

He helped run the redistricting effort for the Senate GOP as far back as 1991 in a once - a-decade process that occurs after the federal census is taken.

Our first objective is to get the state Senate and the Assembly to enact appropriate legislation in response to constitutional requirement that political lines for the legislature and Congress be redrawn every 10 years to reflect the changing population, as shown in the decennial federal census.

As the mechanism for apportioning congressional districts — and billions of federal dollars linked to geographic, income, and population data — the census has always been a political football.

I'm not going to get into any finger pointing with Wilber Ross,» adds Thompson, who this week started a new job as head of the Commission of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics in Washington, D.C. «I respect him, and I know he wants to have a good census.

Many statisticians had recommended that the federal government adopt the mathematical technique of sampling as the most accurate way to estimate how many people census takers were missing.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.

Parents» names and siblings from ancestry.com, found in 1930 North Carolina federal census as well as the North Carolina birth register listing of Noland's birth.

An entire census tract or portion thereof which has been designated by the federal government as economically distressed.