三百六十万假人

Census Counted 3.6 Million Fake People

Local authorities seeking to boost their budgets resulted in Turkey counting at least 3.65 million non-existent people in a national census in 2000. "It has been established so far that 3,651,000 people were recorded as imaginary population,"Sefik Yildizeli, the country's chief statistician, told reporters. Officials acknowledge that the 2000 census, which reported a national population of 64,059,000, was distorted by fake counts at scores of municipalities, whose state budgets are tied to population size. Statisticians are trying to strip the results of the corrupted data and revise the figures. The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.

希望增加预算的地方政府使土耳其在2000年的全国人口普查中统计到了至少365万根本不存在的人口。土耳其的首席统计学家瑟菲克·伊尔迪兹利对记者说：“现在已经可以确定，登记在册的人口中有365万1千人纯属虚构。”人口多寡会影响地方政府的预算。2000年土耳其人口普查得到的总人口数是64,059,000，官员们承认这一结果因几十个地方政府虚报人口而大有水分。统计学家们正在努力消除错误数据的影响并修正人口数字。地方上的一些政客则指责这次普查没有统计到许多住在棚屋区的穷人，这样的疏漏在居民主要是库尔德人的东南部地区尤为严重。

Remarks：综合两方面的意见，可以认为虚报的人口是对统计偏差的一种补充，只是地方政府应该把靠虚报增加的预算用在那些视线之外的“假人”身上。