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Science 8 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5523, p. 1823
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5523.1823
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CHINA'S CENSUS:
National Count Reveals Major Societal Changes

Daniel Walfish

BEIJING--According to the country's fifth national census, China's population is becoming older, better educated, and more transient. It is also harder to track, resulting in a big jump in the census undercount. Experts say that the undercount, some 30 times larger than that in the last census a decade ago, reflects the impact of a rising standard of living and growing concern about privacy, in addition to a large but elusive migrant population.

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