Just meditating on timing, the actual census was conducted in 2000 on Clinton's watch. There were many issues with the application of adjustments to compensate or not for historical problems with undercountingpeople in various subgroups in urban areas.
Given the history and impact of the census, the Dept of Commerce would not necessarily be my first choice about a place to go all bipartisan about.
DC
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> There was a lot of controversy in 1990 about using standard techniques to
>> adjust for undercount, since these tend to expand estimates of urban (i.e.,
>> Dem) populations at the expense of rural (i.e., Rep). My sense is that
>> Census is the most politicized of all the statistical agencies in the U.S.
>>
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> Would you provide a link to freshen my memory about the controversy, and
> enlarge on the present state of the contest?
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> thx, martin
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