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...Census figures indicate that, given normal population movement, there are about 54,000 19- and 20-year-old males in the area in addition to a population of about 29,000 college students...
Similar pained cries were echoing loudly across the nation, as city halls everywhere began receiving the preliminary reports of the 1980 census. Cause of the anger: the mayors simply do not believe their cities have lost as many people in the past decade as the early numbers show. The census figures have Atlanta down from 497,000 to just 402,000; Boston down from 641,000 to 505,000; Baltimore down from 906,000 to 753,000. But the biggest loser is likely to be New York City: the new statistics indicate that it has about 800,000 fewer residents...
Hoping to be able to refute the Census Bureau's findings, tentative as they are, municipal officials have begun their own head counts and are even taking the bureau to court. Two congressional subcommittees plan to convene joint hearings on the dispute this week...
...Census officials are not at all surprised by the commotion. Slip-ups are just about inevitable in an undertaking as gargantuan as this year's $1 billion effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is to uncover major inaccuracies that the bureau decided to issue tentative findings this year. The disclosure is part of a new review process in which the early field counts, along with the maps of housing units used by census takers in making their tally, are being sent to the nation...
Several cities are taking their own census and concentrating especially on minority neighborhoods. Illegal aliens can be especially difficult to count; they often try to avoid the census takers, fearing that the data provided eventually could be used by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport them. (In fact, census information remains confidential and is not made available to other agencies...