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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At many people in DC did not fill out census b/c they were  busy, angry, afraid of their immigration status, or remote working somewhere else.[/quote]
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Not the PP, but they are correct that DC's population is especially hard to count right now. The Urban Institute concluded that DC's population was undercounted by over 14k residents in 2020, larger as a % of population than any state.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/11/02/nearly-14400-washingtonians-werent-counted-in-the-census-new-report-says/

It's not a big reach to suspect that the Census population change numbers may also be not as reliable as usual in cities like DC. For example, the Census Bureau isn't even releasing a lot of their usual statistics for 2020 because the data aren't good enough.

https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/29/census-wont-release-key-annual-survey-because-of-pandemics-impact-on-data/

Without knowing how this particular sausage is made, it's not unreasonable to be cautious about interpreting these numbers also.[/quote]

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