unfortunately, there is a constitutional MANDATED way to take the census
... which is archaic ... and tremendously costly to boot ... but as far as
i know ... all attempts at going to a more statistical sampling method have
been stricken down in the courts ...
this is one place that the constitution clearly needs to be changed ...
but, given that amendments need 3/4 of the states to agree ... this will be
hard to pass ... since many states see reapportionment under the current
method to be advantageous to them ... so, they would not agree to this
when the census readily admits that 10% or so are missed ... flat out NOT
seen nor counted ... AND we know that statistical methods can greatly
improve upon that ... we need to change
At 12:16 PM 3/2/01 +0000, J. Williams wrote:
>The Census Bureau urged Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Thursday not
>to use adjusted results from the 2000 population count. Evans must
>now weigh the recommendation from the Census Bureau, and will make the
>decision next week. If the data were adjusted statistically it could
>be used to redistribute and remap political district lines. William
>Barron, the Bureau Director, said in a letter to Evans that he agreed
>with a Census Bureau committee recommendation "that unadjusted census
>data be released as the Census Bureau's official redistricting data."
>Some say about 3 million or so people make up a disenfranchising
>undercount. Others disagree viewing sampling as a method to "invent"
>people who have not actually been counted. Politically, the stakes
>are high on Evans' final decision.
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