Word: census
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wall in front of which Zellner, Reagan's state media director, sits. "I'm from Georgia and my whole family was Depression Democrat. In those days, no one in the South voted Republican. Now, no one in my family is a Democrat. And just wait for the 1980 census to redistribute the electoral votes. Carter forestalled the trend in the South, but the balance of power in this country is shifting. The political spectrum has moved. And Reagan has straddled the center...
They call Lorain (pop. 80,000 plus, depending on whether you believe the U.S. Census Bureau) a "steel town," like scores of small towns in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania--the industrial heartland. The ships come in from the lake to dock, but most travellers drive straight through, headed for Cleveland or Toledo and maybe Detroit. The biggest steel pipe plant in the country--"U.S. Steel. The Real Threat is From Foreign Steel" say the signs at the Grove St. entrance--dominates the southern half of town, stretching across the shores of Lake Erie in a spot close to where...
...census has been especially inaccurate in enumerating the Black population," Keyfitz said, citing figures to show that in 1970, when the white undercount was 1.9 per cent, the black undercount was 7.7 per cent...
...Cities with high Black populations will be cheated, because the census may result in both less renumeration and perhaps a loss in representation," he added...
...census bureau has traditionally, after finishing its count, made estimates of the undercount through comparative examinations of old census reports, birth and death records, and immigration reports. "Now, though, the bureau is under pressure to find a way to make these estimates before the enumeration is complete, and somehow incorporate these figures into the count," census official Charles D. Jones said yesterday...