The US authorities makes use of census knowledge to distribute assets pretty
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A change to the US authorities’s system for processing the census may enhance the accuracy of publicly disclosed knowledge – with out compromising the privateness of particular person residents and residents.
The federal government depends on nationwide census knowledge – gathered each 10 years by the US Census Bureau – to distribute a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} in federal funding to state and native communities. Such knowledge additionally performs a key political function by serving to states draw Congressional district boundaries and figuring out what number of seats within the US Home of Representatives…
