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Article: Census Bureau: Release Y2K Figures
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GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-02-2001
Census Bureau: Release Y2K Figures
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Disappointed Democrats and civil rights groups are calling for all population figures from the 2000 census to be released despite a Census Bureau recommendation to use only a raw ``head count'' of Americans for congressional redistricting.
Civil rights groups have been concerned because of bureau estimates that showed 3.4 million Americans -- mostly minorities -- were overlooked in the latest census. They wanted the Census Bureau's acting director, William Barron, to urge Commerce Secretary Don Evans to use a second population tally -- adjusted by a statistical method known ...