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...know [the uncounted citizens] are born and that they go to school, but after that they disappear for about 20 years and resurface in census counts much later," says the Princeton graduate...
Rubin says that estimating the exact number of people missed in a census is important to government and social service officials for two reasons. "One has to do with money, and the other has to do with legislation in Congress," he says...
Representatives from New York City, for example, are rallying in support of a bill sponsored by Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D.-Calif.), which will force the Census Bureau to use statistical adjustments in the 2000 census. The bill is receiving such support, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, because New York City officials estimate that the 1980 census missed more than 800,000 New York residents, causing the metropolis to lose $25 million in federal funding...
...other states, such as California, where a high number of illegal immigrants refuse to respond to the national census, cities are not receiving enough federal funding to provide adequate social services for their residents, since federal money is doled out based on a falsely low federal head-count...
...mayors feel it is to their advantage to adjust the census. Right now they are getting fewer dollars, even if the census misses by just 1 percent," says Howard Hogan, a member of the Commerce Department's statistics division...