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What does undercount mean?

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Verb
  1. To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
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The One Number Census measured the undercount in the 2001 Census to be 6,1 per cent of the total population.
Some say it was only about 250,000 people, but I say it was the greatest undercount in the history of America.
Oft-cited Census data apparently overstate the number of uninsured because they undercount the number of people covered by Medicaid.
The report draws on the 1996 and 2001 censuses, which contain a 10 percent and 16 percent undercount, respectively.
These figures are probably an undercount, since owners tried to hide horses from the tax collector.
Lynch and others have pointed out that the estimate of 64,000 computers was a serious undercount.

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