Legal Opinion

Utah v. Evans

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 20, 2002No. 01-714PublishedCited by 202 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer

The question before us is whether the Census Bureau’s use in the year 2000 census of a methodology called “hot-deck imputation” either (1) violates a statutory provision forbidding use of “the statistical method known as ‘sampling’ ” or (2) is inconsistent with the Constitution’s statement that an “actual Enumeration” be made. 13 U. S. C. § 195; U. S. Const., Art. I, § 2, cl. 3. We conclude that use of “hot-deck imputation” violates neither the statute nor the Constitution.

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"Hot-deck imputation refers to the way in which the Census Bureau, when conducting the year 2000 census, filled in…

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