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features Battalion/Page 13 September 9, 1982 Census trying to determine number illegal aliens in U.S. Two for one staff photo by David Fisher jping k nesses The newest solution to mass transporta- 5.” non for Jim Doepel and Dawn Ruggels is to share a ride on his ten speed bicy- 'hcd cle. Since a car apparently wasn’t availa- ewreibig they made do with what they had. n ask«M_ ! Doepel is a petroleum engineering ma jor from Houston, and Ruggels is a sophomore from Houston studying fi nance. Lady lives like patriot United Press International LOS ANGELES — A small team of statisticians at the Bureau of the Census is trying to answer a question the 1980 cen sus never asked: How many illegal aliens are there in the Un ited States? For the First time they believe they are making headway in solving a problem one of them conceded seems intractable. While Congress debates what to do about the illegal alien problem, the federal statisticians hope to come up with an overall total based on something better than the stab-in-the-dark re ckoning of the past. They are not trying to identify indi viduals. In taking the census, the gov ernment mounted an extensive, expensive campaign to convince illegal aliens, especially Mex icans and other Hispanics, that they should cooperate in the census without fear of arrest. They were reassured that the census would not ask whether they were in the country legally or illegally, to keep from fright ening the illegals into hiding from the census takers. Hispanic entertainers on Spanish language TV stations and priests from their pulpits told Hispanics they would not get their fair share of represen tation in Congress, federal prog rams and other benefits unless they cooperated. More than $50 billion in revenue sharing and other federal programs is alot- ted on the basis of census fi gures. The special campaign to in crease the accuracy of the count appears to have worked fairly well, say those who took part, holding the estimated “under count” of Hispanics to 4.4 per cent. The number of illegal aliens has been a subject of intense de bate for years, with estimates ranging from one million to 20 million, often depending on whatever political argument the user wanted to make. The cur rent generally accepted figure is three million to six million. The effort to determine the census figures on the number of illegals was described in a little noticed paper presented to the annual meeting of the Popula tion Association of America in San Diego by Robert Warren, a census bureau analyst. A three-man team in the bureau’s population analysis staff has been trying to come up with a scientifically reliable method for making the count. The method basically involves use of census and immigration data to arrive at a total number of foreign-born inhabitants, then subtracting known alien deaths and departures from the country. He said the team has suc ceeded in developing methods to come up with “a lower bound,” a minimum which the illegal population must surpass. Working with figures from the 1979 “Current Population Sur vey” — a yearly mini-census — Warren came up with a figure of 1.25 million as the minimum. For a number of reasons, the actual number of illegal aliens “is certainly far higher than that,” said Jeffrey S. Passel, su pervisory statistician of the three-man team that includes Warren at the census bureau’s^ headquarters in Suitland, Md. ^ The overall total would stillr be shaky, he said. “Ultimately expect it won’t narrow the ranged much over the figures so many-J people use now, 3 to 6 million,”* he said, but whatever the result^* it will have a better factual base. 1 '!' 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