The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after
struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men,
but was mostly accurate, the government said Tuesday.
The Census Bureau released an extensive assessment of its
high-stakes, once-a-decade headcount of the U.S. population. Based on a
sample survey, the government analysis has been a source of political
controversy in the past over whether to "statistically adjust" census
results to correct for undercounts, which usually involve minorities who
tend to vote Democratic.
The findings show the 2010 census over-counted the total U.S.
population by 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, due mostly to duplicate
counts of affluent whites owning multiple homes. That is an improvement
from a census over-count of 0.5 percent in 2000.
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1 comment:
And? Most likely when the Census were attempting to do their jobs at 2pm, the minorities were sleeping because they were out walking the streets at 2am. Or they were in church.
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