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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Census Director Martha Farnsworth Riche, who battled Republican lawmakers over counting methods for 2000, is quitting.

Riche said Monday she would leave office Jan. 30.

She has been involved in a lengthy dispute with members of Congress over Census 2000, largely over how to count the many people who might be missed by regular methods.

The fight focused on a practice called sampling, in which the bureau would determine the number and characteristics of people it cannot reach based on the people it can.

Though the practice was endorsed by the National Science Foundation and statistical groups, Republicans in Congress have opposed it, concerned that the result would be more people counted in largely Democratic large cities.

The results will be used to redistribute House seats to the states.

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