The U.S. Census counted 281,000,000 people in 2000. To accomplish this huge task, the Census hired some 860,000 temporary workers and spent more than $6 billion in total.
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Despite their best efforts, the Census Bureau estimates that the 2000 Census missed 6.4 million people. Although this is a relatively small number of people (only 2% of the population), most of those not counted are minorities, children, and low-income people. There are many reasons why people might not get counted in the Census, including: privacy concerns, homelessness, low literacy levels and not enough time to fill out the forms.
However, recent 2008 assessments show an unusual increase in the population numbers. Such a disparity may create a potential concern for the requirement of hi-technological instrumentation in order to provide an accurate gauging of future population accounting methods. Here's how estimates of the undercounts look compared to the official count:
In 2008, recent calculations show registered Democrat voters exceeded the entire U.S. population compared to estimated increases by the U.S. Census Bureau using ten year averages. These calculations would imply that the United States population does not include any Republican Party members. However, registered Republic voters have been recorded, and these recordings have been confirmed by the U.S. Census Bureau to fall within appropriate population estimates. The result of these registration numbers shows that the population of the United States has increased two-fold since Barack Obama was nominated to represent the Democrat Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.
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