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Opinion: Why I will be making trouble for the census

By Simon Beard | Fri 25th February 2011 - 10:17 am

After voting in elections, I doubt there is any civic duty more important than responding to the decennial census. The information it provides to governments for policy making is vital, and often very revealing. It simply is not mentioned enough, but the last time a census was taken, back in 2001, it was found that the population was over a million people smaller than predicted in 2000, and that estimates of the population growth rate, which fueled national hysteria about immigration in the late 1990s were twice what they should have been.

It therefore makes me very sad that …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged census, census 2011, lockheed martin and pacifist | 9 Comments

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