Census Bureau Releases Estimates of Undercount and Overcount in the 2010 Census

by Gary Kopycinski on May 22, 2012

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 22, 2012. The U.S. Census Bureau released today results from its post-enumeration survey, providing a measure of the accuracy of the 2010 Census. The results found that the 2010 Census had a net overcount of 0.01 percent, meaning about 36,000 people were overcounted in the census. This sample-based result, however, was not statistically different from zero.