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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."
Politics--Once Again--Threaten To Mar Census, Chester Smolski
Politics--Once Again--Threaten To Mar Census, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"It may seem like a simple operation--count the number of people in the country so that the 435 members of the U.S. Congress may represent equal numbers of persons throughout the nation, but what should be a simple matter of number crunching has turned into a political quagmire."