Adjusting the 1980 Census of Population and Housing
调整美国1980年人口与住房普查结果
In 1980, several cities and states sued the U.S. Census Bureau to correct census results. This correction would adjust for the differential undercounting of Blacks and Hispanics, especially in cities. In this article, the authors, each of whom testified for New York City and State in their joint lawsuit against the Census Bureau, describe the likely pattern of the undercount and present a method to adjust for it. We first explain why the undercount is concentrated among…