Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To record fewer than the actual number of (persons in a census, for example).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
Etymologies
Examples
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(I am not going to name names, but one should assume that polls conducted by robo-calls undercount cellphone-only voters.)
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We do know the ballots from Miami-Dade County, the 9,000 so-called undercount votes will be brought to the Leon County Library.
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An "undercount" costs money because most government funding is handed on the basis of population.
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Thus, the defective Census Bureau computer systems deprived 300-plus Grand Junction constituents of immediate Census jobs (while local unemployment remains near record highs) which could ultimately result in a significant "undercount" in western Colorado.
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Callers said not running the story or others who reported the "undercount" were examples of how the liberal media is supporting the Obama Administration.
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This same kind of undercount happened again in 2003: The CMS reported 2 million people became eligible for Medicaid, but the Census Bureau recorded only a 350,000 increase in
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i also think it's naive for the school district personnel thinking that just becasue you don't return one, you become an "undercount".
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It seems to me I recall one article where the government actually admitted the undercount.
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But the inability to get access to some houses, or to convince some household members that they are legitimate census staff, resulted in the last census missing one in every six people, a 17% undercount.
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This is something Pali Lehohla , head of Statistics South Africa, wants to overcome, with the goal of getting the undercount into single digits.
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