Sentences with phrase «census count of»

Over the past 20 years, the census count of Indigenous people has doubled from 227,593 in 1986.

Many of the Indigenous Areas with a large number of Indigenous people (usual residence census count of more than 2,500 Indigenous people) had a higher proportion of Indigenous people than the national average of 2.3 %.

The Mark - Viverito bill would mandate a citywide census count of vacant property.

Indigenous Areas in Queensland with high census counts of Torres Strait Islander people included Cairns (C)- Central Suburbs (1,742) and Mackay (C)(1,474)(table 45).

Not exact matches

Questions about citizenship may lead to a sense that even the census - taker — whose job is simply to get an accurate count of those resident within the United States — is helping the federal government with deportation.

If the census were to count only citizens, rather than all residents, the budget allocations will not accurately reflect the actual number of people who will make demands upon public institutions.

To be sure, the count data and basic demographic data would be of obvious relevance (even if it might be 7 years out of date), but since that information is also contained in the still mandatory short - form census, that really isn't at issue here.

Broward County's rate of census forms returned, including our hard - to - count populations, was higher than the national average resulting in an increased flow of federal funds.

Wendy, in the lower mainland, despite the explosion of people with strollers on the Skytrain, it still seems that a lot of young families with children move out to places like Abbotsford and Chilliwack, where they aren't counted towards the Vancouver census numbers.

The United States Census Bureau is a division of the federal government of the United States Bureau of Commerce that is responsible for conducting the national census at least once every 10 years, in which the population of the United States is counted.

A census is a count of a population in a specific region.

Rome never ordered a census in which people had to return to the place of their birth to be counted.

The most recent census — conducted in 1981 — gave a rough count of 84 million people of whom not quite a million were Christian.

Village planners have said that the 2000 Census did not count all residents of the new downtown condos, as a majority were unoccupied when the census was being conducted, and they predict a population growth between 1,000 and 1,200.

By 2030, the number of single - father families is expected to climb 55 percent — from 6 percent of all households counted in the 2000 census to nearly 10 percent, according to state projections.

After the Department of Commerce announced on March 27 that it would restore a question asking who is a citizen to the next census, New York Congress members have pushed back, stating that the question would undermine the reliability of the count - and that it would scare immigrants away from responding.

Advocates also said the Trump administration's push to move to an online census would hurt the chances for an accurate count, as it would slash the number of census field offices.

It won't be long before U.S. census takers disperse around the country for the official count of Americans that takes place every 10 years as specified by the Constitution.

The city does not have a daily census of its unsheltered homeless population, but is working briskly to come up with a way to count them, Taylor said.

An annual census of unsheltered homeless individuals called the HOPE count, which is taken each January, showed at the beginning of this year that the number of unsheltered people on the city's streets had stayed roughly the same, from 3,180 people in 2014 to 3,182 in January of 2015.

That's why the nation has had a census — it's a way to count the number of people in the nation and then to allocate Congressional districts to reflect changes in the population.

The census counts every person living in the nation, irrespective of their ages, whether they are immigrants — here legally or not.

In its filing, the Bloomberg administration contends the census incorrectly counted as vacant a number of homes in Astoria, Jackson Heights, Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, which it says «are among the most vibrant areas in New York City.»

To announce the formation of the Complete Count Committee, Marshall was joined at Borough Hall by Ligia Jaquez, deputy regional director of the U.S. Census Bureau; Stacey Cumberbatch, the 2010 census coordinator for the city; the Rev. Floyd Flake of the Greater Allen AME Cathedral; Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of Make the Road New York; and S.J. Jung, president of the Minkwon Center for Community Action in Flushing.

Congress must approve the FY 2018 appropriations by October 1 this year, on the eve of several key census field tests targeting 700,000 households in Rhode Island, Washington state and West Virginia to finalize operational designs for the 2020 count.

But that seemingly innocuous request to gather more information about the U.S. population has enraged census and civil rights advocates, who see it as part of a broader campaign by President Donald Trump and his administration to undermine the legitimacy of the decennial head count.

Social scientists and businesses are major users of census data, and the allocation of some $ 600 billion in federal programs is tied to the head count.

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has already predicted that the 2020 census will see a lower initial response rate than previous counts, because of growing public reluctance to answer any type of survey, increasing distrust of government, concerns about cybersecurity, and logistical problems that he blames on the previous administration.

«It's like the way the census works: to count the number of people who live in the United States, you don't knock on every single door, you sample and then extrapolate,» she explains.

«We urge Congress to consider this request today as an opening ante,» says Phil Sparks of The Census Project, based in Washington, D.C. «Frankly, 2019 is the critical year for funding census operations to ensure a quality count.»

The National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is an early - winter bird census, where thousands of citizen scientists across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period to count bCount (CBC) is an early - winter bird census, where thousands of citizen scientists across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period to count bcount birds.

Utilizing census counts, national health and tobacco use surveys, and published literature, Soneji's team calculated the expected years of life gained or lost from the impact of e-cigarette use on smoking cessation among current smokers, and transition to long - term cigarette smoking among never - smokers.

The ruling prevents the census from going ahead with a plan to count about 90 % of the population and use statistical sampling methods to calculate the rest.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rather than try to count each and every American for the 2000 census, the U.S. Census Bureau should use sampling techniques to estimate the number of people not tallied by traditional surveys, according to a report released here today by the National Research Council (NRC).

Although the census bureau still must refine its techniques to achieve a representative sample, a complete national head count — for which some members of Congress have lobbied in recent days — would be too expensive and inaccurate, the report says.

census An official count or survey of a population.

February 2012 — A new census showed an increase in wild Mexican wolf pup births for the second year in a row, bringing the count of wild wolves up from 50 to 58 individuals, with breeding pairs increasing from two to six.

Canada's 2006 census counted a total population of 31,612,897.

In addition, Crews added, whether children are counted and where they are counted in the census helps determine the amount of funding for schools in various areas.

Have each student in the group calculate the number of leaves on the tree; the group then uses the average of its members» counts as its official «leaf census» number.

The ISC, a membership organisation for 1,326 private schools which counts Harrow, Eton, Westminster and Rugby among its members, has today published the results of its annual census.

In 1980 (the first year the census recorded a «Spanish Origin» population), whites numbered roughly 189 million in a national population of over 226.5 million, roughly 83 % of the population counted in the Census.

I have no data to support this — maybe Stats Can should add the question to the next census — but I can count on my fingers and toes the number of people I know whose portfolios are 100 % indexed.

Once an initial baseline of data has been gathered, Shelter Animals Count will be able to provide comparative reports — including shelter and U.S. census data through a Tableau Software interface — by mid-2016.

In 2010 the census counted 28,008 people in San Ysidro of which 93 % were Hispanic.

On Sunday, December 27, Wave Hill was happy to welcome three observers for the 92nd Bronx - Westchester Christmas Bird Count (BWCBC), itself part of the National Audubon Society's more than century - long efforts to census bird numbers nationwide from about mid-December to early January.

[12:42 p.m. Updated K. Ullas Karanth of the nonprofit Center for Wildlife Studies has offered a very important counterweight to the official census in a comment, noting that the methodology for generating the count is still pretty opaque.

They have implemented a project similar to the Christmas Bird Count in that its purpose is to compile census of birds.

Although the National Breeding Bird Survey does an annual census on the North Slope, they greatly underestimate songbird numbers by counting just once, at only a handful of locations and fairly late in the season, when the birds are less vocal.

@Zizouz212: I don't know how the Canadian senate works, but the U.S. senate has two senators from each state regardless of population, and this provision was written by the same people who wrote that the number of members of the house of representatives from each state would depend on the number of people counted in the census.