Appropriations for everything from road funds to Title I educational funds to revenue sharing monies are at least in part population-based. Decisions about education, health care, job training, transportation and business are all based on census data. A complete and accurate count is crucial. The Bureau and the Clinton Administration have claimed that sampling will ensure that undercounted populations are fully counted. Sampling has been oversold.
Studies reveal that sampling simply fails to deliver.
Areas that were overcounted would also see an increase by sampling. Sampling would have added back only 673, leaving one out of four residents uncounted by the census.