hehehehe you said "fudged"
Posted on 09/29/2011 6:48:09 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
The Census Bureau admitted Tuesday that it had “artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples” in the United States, initially reporting a number that was about 40 percent higher than what it now believes is accurate.
The original data published by the 2010 Census set the number of same-sex households in the U.S. in 2010 at 901,997, including 349,377 same-sex married couple households and 552,620 same-sex unmarried partner households.
But the Census Bureau said in a Tuesday conference call with reporters that it has revised these numbers downward “because Census Bureau staff discovered an inconsistency in the responses in the 2010 Census summary file statistics that artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples.”
The Census Bureau now says the 2010 Census found that there were 131,729 same-sex married couple households and 514,735 same-sex unmarried partner households in the United States--for a total of 646,464 same-sex-couple households.
Given that the Census Bureau says there were 116,716,292 total households in the United States in 2010, that means same-sex households made up only 0.55 percent of the total. Had there actually been 901,997 same-sex households in the United States--the "artificially inflated" number the Census Bureau originally reported--that would have equaled ony 0.77 percent of the households in the country.
According to the Census Bureau, the problem with the Census data on same-sex couples was due to “data capture errors” that were caused by the confusing layout on the 2010 Census forms--“the matrix format”--where entering a person’s sex often did not accurately reflect that person’s gender.
Households are identified as same-sex based on the sex of the responder and the relationship of the household members, as either unmarried partner or husband or wife, according to the Census Bureau.
Boxes on the Census form for “male” and “female” were stacked on top of each other, making it more likely for a person to mark the wrong gender or make erroneous lines, changing the results.
“After discovering the inconsistency, Census Bureau staff developed another set of estimates to provide a more accurate way to measure same-sex couple households,” the news release said.
“The revised figures were developed by using an index of names to re-estimate the number of same-sex married and unmarried partners by the sex commonly associated with the person's first name,” the Census Bureau said.
The Census Bureau “Names Index” matched common names to their corresponding genders, such as identifying “John” or “Thomas” as male and “Elizabeth” and “Virginia” as female. The index helped solve the “name-sex inconsistencies” which had increased the numbers of same-sex couples.
After it accounted for the “data capture errors,” the number of same-sex couples in the country was revised to 646,464 from 901,997. Thus, the Census Bureau had "artificially inflated" the number of same-sex couples by 255,533--or 39.5 percent.
The Census Bureau said that the errors were not realized until it was too late to alter the 2010 forms.
But the inaccuracies prompted the Bureau to devise a “Preferred Estimate,” revealed Tuesday, to more accurately depict the incidences of same-sex households, according to Martin O’Connell, chief of the Fertility and Family Statistics Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau, during a conference call to highlight the new data.
“There is no dispute that same-sex couple population increased between 2000 and 2010," said O’Connell, during the briefing.
“What we tried to do was try to get a better grip on exactly what the numbers were and what the actual increase was,” he said. "We tried to eliminate population numbers that seemed artificially high using this estimate, and that's what we came up with."
In 2000, the number of same-sex households, as calculated by the 2000 Census, was 594,391.
“But you guys can’t continue to oppose gay marriage, cause the country is now 73% gay, see?”
Whatta bunch of maroons!
It's less than that. The pro-homo organizations count the people in prisons who don't have a gender choice if they decide they want sex. Therefore, men who have sex with other men in prison are automatically "homosexual", which isn't the case. They don't have a choice.
There are a lot of people in prison these days, so the numbers are skewed.
I have to wonder what other numbers they fudged in the lefts favor. This makes me question if the entire 2010 census results are even close to being accurate.
This is the same crap they pulled with the Pentagons DADT survey. They cooked the numbers!
For at least 40 years it has been known that the 10% figure was way too high...but it keeps getting repeated in the media so people keep getting fooled into thinking it is correct.
To them, there's no difference between the truly needy and the lazy (the wanting) who simply don't feel like getting out of bed 29 days a month (The first day of the month is pay day, so they do manage to roll over and fall out of bed on the 1st).
hehehehe you said "fudged"
So, speak up now, or forever hold your tongue
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Oh, I do, I do and much to my wife’s chagrin. But being married 47 years means she knows I’m not about to change.
Boxes on the Census form for "male" and "female" were stacked on top of each other, making it more likely for a person to mark the wrong gender or make erroneous lines, changing the results. nonsense!!!
They surveyed people behind a desk. No one bothered to ask those with boots on the ground - those who would be forced to deal with the disgusting orgies later.
That was “project 10”, under the general technique called “jamming”, which operates by making the occurrence of homosexuality to be far more ubiquitous than it is.
It is funny when someone awkwardly handles this technique, like when my libinlaw interjected this “statistic” in a complete non-sequitur to the conversation. My wife and I looked at her and said “that’s not true, and what did it have to do with slicing the cake?”
Who put the preasure on them that forced them to come clean?
in the past, they were hidden from view. Oh, for the good old days!
What else did they LIE to us about?
Hmmmmmmm???????
If an alien from another universe visited and watched network TV, they would conclude that about 50% of the population is gay.....
Excellent question. Keep ypour ears perked and your eyes peeled.
They are the spearhead in the movement to criminalize Christianity.
Gee you know perhaps when you want to lie about something someone should at least check into how many marriages there are in the USA before proceeding? Just a thought.....I swear this administration is run by a bunch of children who act first then everything blows up in their faces.
Hide their food stamps under their work boots!
LOL... I thought about that when I typed it (unfortunately).
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