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Article: Statement of William G. Barron, Acting Census Bureau Director, Regarding Census 2000 Undercount Estimates Released Today
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 28, 2001
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WASHINGTON, March 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a
statement by William G. Barron, acting Census Bureau director:
The Presidential Members of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board
today released data that they describe as representing Census 2000
undercounts for all fifty states and five U.S. cities.
As part of the policy of transparency for Census 2000, we have
provided extensive, perhaps unprecedented, data and other
information to our oversight bodies. This is the only way the
estimates released today could have been calculated. It appears that
both the population counts and the methodology used to calculate
them are seriously flawed.
For instance, our review of the data made ...