Definition of undercount
: to count fewer than the actual number of
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The announcement has not been well-received by progressives and immigration advocates, who argue that the mere existence of the question on the form will cause Latinos to decline to fill it out and that therefore Latinos will be undercounted.
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The census typically overcounts non-Hispanic whites and homeowners, and undercounts minorities, immigrants, children and the poor.
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The 2010 census undercounted 2.1 percent of the African American population, the Census Bureau estimated.
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But in a March memo announcing the Census Bureau would add the question back to the main form, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross downplayed the idea that undercounting would occur.
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The Commerce Department will add a question inquiring about citizenship to the 2020 Census, a move critics fear could undercount immigrant communities and thus cost diverse states and localities congressional representation and federal resources.
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States with large immigrant populations would be the most likely to be undercounted, and those just happen to have Democratic majorities.
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African Americans, particularly African-American men, have been undercounted in the last two censuses.
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This is designed to intentionally undercount immigrants and communities of color.
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First Known Use of undercount
1951
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