Byline: D'VERA COHN Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration will act today to make it more likely that a sample survey of U.S. households will be used to revise the census count and include millions more people, mainly minorities, despite bitter Republican opposition.
The administration will state that it intends to give the Census Bureau alone, not higher-ranking political appointees, the power to decide whether numbers derived from the survey are more accurate than those from the door-to-door head count. The Census Bureau already has endorsed sampling, and …
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