Following three months of research, University demographers from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have added and corrected information about Virginia addresses for the 2010 U.S. census.\n"We hope that our participation will help ensure that there is an accurate count for Virginia," Cooper Center Statistician Susan Clapp said.\nUniversity researchers participated in and received funding from the U.S. Census Bureau's "Local Update of Census Addresses" program, which encourages local governments to provide up-to-date information about area addresses. The University project particularly focused on housing quarters, a category that includes nursing homes, dormitories, correctional facilities and other kinds of group-living arrangements. The Center collected data on 3,000 such housing quarters.\nResearchers gathered data from various agencies and universities across the state and then compared that data to the previous census bureau list, Clapp said. During the process, missing addresses were added, and corrections were made to addresses that needed to be updated, she said.\nThe survey's results can impact Virginia's future, as census data is used to distribute congressional seats and to determine the size and boundaries of voting districts for the General Assembly. Census data also is used by the federal government to determine the amount of funds that go toward individual states for education, transportation, public safety and other programs.\nNevertheless, even a more accurate set of results would not likely impact Virginia's congressional representation during this census round, said Qian Cai, director of the Demographics and Workforce section at the Cooper Center.\n"I really don't think [Virginia's] going to get one more seat," Cai said. "It's not going to have that big of an impact. [More] importantly, it's getting accurate content and better content, and that will help the funds coming to communities."\nMore accurate data will provide a better foundation for the next census in 2020, as well, Cai said.
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