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Census Having A Hard Time With City's "Nooks"
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Jaya Saxena
Published Feb 24, 2010
Modified Feb 24, 2010
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As you could probably tell by all those fliers piling up in your vestibule, the Census is ready to take your info. But apparently they've been having a hard time finding everyone in the city. The New York Times reports that the Census has discovered nearly 300,000 people they missed the last time around because they didn't have their addresses.
The Census records are often outdated, going off previous Census data that usually isn't accurate in a massive, ever-changing city. Take the example of One River Place, a 40-story residential tower on 12th Avenue and 44th Street. Even though it was one of the first developments that far west, it never showed up on the Census map because, well, it was that far west. Luckily the city corrected them, and has so far given the Census Bureau 127,000 addresses that were not on their list. That's nearly 4% of the city's population.
Census takers are trying everything to find those who have slipped through the cracks, from dispatching over 60 agency workers for on-site inspections to hiring over 40,000 volunteer census takers. They have even considered using water bills to "estimate how many times toilets were flushed and gauge population based on average human needs." So it's either fill out the Census, or have the government all up in your toilet, your call.
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