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Amid Declining Populations, N.E. Planners Meet, Chester Smolski
Amid Declining Populations, N.E. Planners Meet, Chester Smolski
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"The day-long regional meeting of the American Planning Association recently held in Providence drew a variety of planners from the three southern New England states. Coming form the town, city, state and regional planning agencies, private organizations as well as the academic community, the planners addressed a number of issues, ranging from suburban stress to the latest computer technologies."
Population Sampling Issue Still Bedevils, Chester Smolski
Population Sampling Issue Still Bedevils, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"How do you count, with accuracy, 275 million mobile people? That is the task of the U.S. Census Bureau in the year 2000. Unfortunately, the courts rather than the professionals have made this decision.
"On January 25, 1999, in the case of Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives, No. 98-404, the nation's highest court ruled that statistical sampling of the population for the next census in the year 2000 cannot be used to apportion seats to the house of Representatives."