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Last October, the Reagan Administration decided to reject Rubin's new statistical methods and will not adjust the 1990 census data. James Gorman, a spokesman for the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, explains, the "point was that the Census Bureau would be open to the accusation that it was manipulating figures. Also, no one was sure if [the new technique] would be operational by 1990. Some people say it's not possible to take an accurate survey of 300,000 after the 1990 census and to give it to the president, according...
David Freedman, professor of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley, testified last summer to the House Subcommitee on the Census and Population that new statistical techniques are more difficult to implement in a census than it may first appear...
...answer is another clever idea: matching sample persons against the census, to see if they were counted. That is easy to say, but not so easy to do, because the sample will have about 300,000 persons, and the population will be around 250,000,000. The practical result is that a sample person can go unmatched by error," Freedman says...
There are others who charge the current administration is rejecting census readjustment for political reasons, because a statistical modification of population numbers may give the Democrats more power in the House, according to a graduate student working with Rubin...
...Vincent Barabba, former director of the Census Bureau under the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations says that adjusting undercounted groups is generally advisable--at least for future censuses...