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Although advertising campaigns and public-relations efforts are already underway, the U.S. Census for the year 2000 will officially begin April 1. April Fool's Day will be an appropriate date for a counting process that the last time it was conducted missed several million people, especially African-Americans, Hispanics, urban dwellers, immigrants and the poor. Although later studies estimated the extent of the undercounting, the official figures were not adjusted, and undercounted states suffered corresponding cutbacks in their representation in Congress and shares of federal funds...
Getting an accurate assessment of the U.S. population, as well as demographic data vital to school districts and businesses alike, would be next to impossible with a door-to-door enumeration. Only 65 percent of Americans returned their census forms in the last census in 1990; in some areas, rates were as low as 39 percent. Undercounted states like California lost as much as $2 billion in federal...
According to Driskell, several administrators, including University President Neil L. Rudenstine, have promised to pay close attention to the census' findings...
...plans to administer the census--a campus-wide questionnaire she says will help identify Harvard's strengths and shortcomings--before spring break...
Still, others council members--including Quincy House representative Michael D. Shumsky '00--say while the council has lost a significant amount of potentially productive time in the election brouhaha, they believe the Burton impeachment efforts will not impede Driskell's ability to push the census through...