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- verb Present participle of
undercount .
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Examples
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To avoid that kind of undercounting in the 2010 census, organizations like the Lake Superior Community Partnership are stressing the importance of census data.
The Mining Journal 2010
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The GOP may well lose several House seats solely due to undercounting in their districts.
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Of course, that will be hidden by the usual trick of undercounting the unemployed, but it is obvious that we are looking at persistent unemployment that could continue for years.
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But undercounting the services sector remains the most serious methodological problem for China's national accounts.
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The United Nations attributes the disparity to several factors, including definitional differences—whether honor killings should count—a lack of public-health infrastructure in some countries, and undercounting—possibly deliberate—by police.
Fuzzy Facts Can Make Crime Rankings Suspect Carl Bialik 2012
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Pilotshark, Yes, it will be fascinating to hear them cry about Obama undercounting conservatives.
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The Census has a history of undercounting residents in urban cities like Detroit.
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The GOP may well lose several House seats solely due to undercounting in their districts.
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Pilotshark, Yes, it will be fascinating to hear them cry about Obama undercounting conservatives.
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DMI cites a PricewaterhouseCoopers study of the 2000 Census which projected a loss of $4 billion from 2002 to 2012 for the District of Columbia and 31 affected states due to undercounting of the total population.
Wonk Room » Why Counting Undocumented Immigrants In The 2010 Census Counts For A Lot 2009
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