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former9thward

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11. If you worked for the Census you should know that is not how it works.

Reply to Wawannabe (Reply #3)

Wed May 10, 2017, 08:47 AM

May 2017

I worked for the Census on many projects starting in 2009 and extending to 2016. That included, of course, the Census year of 2010. I worked in Maricopa County of Arizona which includes Phoenix. A large number of Hispanics live there including many undocumented.

Yes, many if not most were resistant to give information. But we had many, many methods to get an accurate count. We might have ended up being off 1% either way but that's it.

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