Document Type
Article
Themes
City Planning
Identifier
HF256
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Abstract
"Whether to adjust or not to adjust, that is the critical question facing the US Census Bureau in the next six weeks, when it decides if it is necessary to make some type of accommodation in the figures form the April 1, 1990, census count.
Deemed "not the best census ever" by the New York Times, the count, as detailed by an embarrassed Census Bureau, missed between four and six million of the country's residents, an undercount even greater than that of 1980. Sadly, more than one half of the undercount included blacks or Hispanics, a population that needs to be enumerated in order to receive full benefits appropriate to their numbers."
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chester, "Census: To Recount or not to Recount?" (1991). Smolski Texts. 324.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_text/324
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Comments
Issues of undercounting and court challenge.