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...rules a judge on the census...
Even before the counting began, Director Vincent Barabba predicted that the 1980 census would be the "toughest and most scrutinized ever." But not even Barabba expected the furor over the Census Bureau's preliminary figures, which have shown big population declines in major Northern cities. Facing the loss of congressional seats and federal funds, which are allocated according to the census, seven cities and states have sued, claiming that the bureau badly undercounted their residents, particularly those in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. In Detroit last week, U.S. District Court Judge Horace Gilmore agreed. He ruled that the 1980 census...
Although Gilmore's ruling applies to the entire 1980 census, the plaintiff before him was just Detroit. The Census Bureau's preliminary figures indicated that the city's population had decreased by nearly 24% in ten years, to 1.2 million. But Mayor Coleman Young's staff, basing their estimates on the number of occupied housing units in the city, argued that Barabba's enumerators missed 120,000 people, most of them blacks in the city's ghettos. Unless the figures are corrected, argued Young's lawyers, one of Michigan's 19 congressional...
Government lawyers contended that the Census Bureau, which acknowledges that in 1970 it overlooked 5.3 million people, about 2.5% of the U.S. population, had spent more than $1 billion on advertising and other efforts to make the 1980 count more accurate. They added that adjusting the figures as demanded by Detroit and other cities would cause the bureau to miss the Jan. 1 deadline set by Congress for reporting the count...
That's now changed: unofficial estimates put the city's Spanish-speaking population at about 8000, though the 1980 census will probably fall far short of that tally...