Nju Jork: Senatori Schumer dyshon ne rezultatin e numerimit te Censuses 2010

Nju Jork: Senatori Schumer dyshon në rezultatin  e numërimit të Censuses 
2010 
 
 
 
Në Nju Jork, numërimi i popullsisë, sipas regjitrimit  të Censuses 2010,; 
shkruan sot shtypi njujorkez  "Duket qartë se  është i papajtueshëm në 
numërimin e regjistrimit në dy lagjet më të mëdha  të tij në Bruklin dhe Bronks." 
diçka ka ndodhur, dhe regjistrimi ka mundësi të  përsëritet për gabime 
teknike.
 
 

 
NEW YORK CITY :   Recount! According to the 2010  Census data, New York's 
population grew by just 166,855 over the past decade to  8.175 million. But a 
previous Census estimate put the city's population at 8.3  million, and 
Senator Chuck Schumer thinks someone fudged the numbers. "These  numbers cry 
out for investigation," he said. "I'm going to put a lot of pressure  on them 
to do it. For the census director to just shrug his shoulders ... isn't  
good enough."
 
Bloomberg has already spoken out about the numbers, saying, "I’m  not 
criticizing them, but it doesn’t make any sense." And Marty Markowitz said,  "I’
m flabbergasted, I know they made a big, big mistake." The state has already 
 lost two House seats, and Schumer says the low numbers could keep the city 
from  getting the federal aid we need. And besides, we need to figure out 
who these  people living in Central Park are.
 
 
 
 
 While Senator Schumer was doing his Sunday press thang and blasting  the 
U.S. Census count for NYC, Mayor Bloomberg, fresh from his turn as  
Spider-Mike, announced that the City is going to formally contest the count. "We  
believe that errors have occurred in putting together the Census results for  
Brooklyn and Queens," he said in a release. "It seems evident to us that  
something incongruous happened in the Census count in these two boroughs."
 
The challenge, technically a "Count Question Resolution," would occur in  
June and would not include a recount. Instead it would be a review of errors 
in  the existing data. 
"They can't go back out in the field," Joseph Salvo, the  director of the 
population division at the city's Planning Department, explained  to the 
Journal. "It would be looking for geographic errors or processing  errors." The 
city successfully challenged the Census's 1990 count of New  Yorkers. 
 
A Count Question Resolution won't change the process of determining  
Congressional representation, but it will correct the population numbers that  the 
feds use to apportion money our way. The city thinks the census was off by  
as much as 225,000 or more.
 
According to the 2010 Census Queens only grew by 0.1 percent (or 1,343  
people) in the past decade and Brooklyn only grew by 1.6 percent (or 39,374  
people). Which many in those boroughs find incredibly hard to believe. As  
Bloomberg explained:
 
Jackson Heights is a good example of the problems we've discovered.  
According to the Census Bureau, the population of Jackson Heights  decreased—
that's right, I said decreased—by nearly 5,200 people, or by about  five percent, 
between the years 2000 and 2010.
 
They also found that here in Jackson Heights between 2000 and 2010, there  
was a drop of some 1,300 occupied units and an increase of 1,200 vacant 
units.  In the Astoria and Steinway areas of Northwest Queens, the Census Bureau 
 reported similar population declines and large increases in housing  
vacancies.
 
Everything we know about these neighborhoods tells a very different story.  
These are vibrant, vital communities. People who have tried to find 
apartments  in these neighborhoods can confirm that there just isn't an abundance 
of  vacancies.
 
So what seems possible to us is that the Census Bureau was unable to get in 
 touch with immigrants, and others, who live here, and in other parts of 
Queens  and Brooklyn. And then it simply recorded their homes as 'vacant.'
 

Anecdotally, we're also hearing from a number of people that they  simply 
didn't fill out their census forms this year (or talk to anyone at their  
door) and therefore weren't counted (if you didn't participate: shame on you!). 
 Which is interesting since according to the Census, participation in the  
decennial count was at 63 percent last year, up from a reported 60 percent 
in  2000.