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Census Says It Sees Little Fake Data; Critics Say It's Not Looking

Associated Press

   Responding to criticism that a shortened schedule jeopardized data
   quality, the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday said less than one-half of
   1% of census takers interviewing households for the 2020 head count may
   have falsified their work, suggesting such problems were few and far
   between.

   The statistical agency said in a statement that a preliminary look at
   the data suggests 0.4% of the hundreds of thousands of census takers,
   also known as enumerators, may have either falsified data or performed
   their jobs unsuccessfully.

   The Census Bureau issued its statement after a report from its watchdog
   agency Wednesday that expressed concerns over lapses in quality control
   checks on the data used for deciding how many congressional seats each
   state gets and how $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed each
   year. The lapses raised concerns about the quality of the census data,
   according to the report by the Office of Inspector General.

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