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Ernest
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« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2004, 09:35:36 PM » |
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I wasn't using the apportionment population before, but even with correcting for that I'm still getting different results.
The states getting seats 431-440 remain unchanged, altho my pop numers are slightly different if I use the apportionment pop as my base pop instead of the estimate base pop as before. I think we're using different multipliers. Here's how I'm getting my number for each state:
1) Find the ratio between the July 1, 2004 estimate and the Apr 1, 2000 estimate base for that State.
2) Find the 17th root of that ratio to get the quarterly multiplier.
3) Raise that root to the 40th power to get the multiplier for 10 years (40 quarters).
4) Multiply that number by the base population to get an estimate for Apr 1, 2010.
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