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...Census will reveal more about the country’s diversity in terms of ethnicity and sexual orientation than any previous count, and will reflect population movement resulting from the recent economic downturn, Harvard professors who study population, ethnicity, and public health predict...
...corrected” by forcing one member of the pair to identify as male and the other as female, according to Nancy Krieger, a professor of society, human development, and health at the Harvard School of Public Health. This census may therefore provide the most accurate count to date of how many same sex couples there are in the U.S., she said...
Areas such as school campuses are categorized by the Census Bureau as “group quarters.” In such situations, the way in which students are counted is left up to the administrations of various institutions. Options include distributing the forms individually to all its students’ mailboxes—Harvard’s chosen method—or allowing Census numerators to set up count stations on campus...
...Even though Harvard students are always busy...it’s important that [Mass.’s] count is accurate so that it can receive that representation and federal funding that it deserves,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...CRUCIAL COUNT, A COMMUNITY EFFORT