Census Bureau employees did not rig national unemployment data to make President Obama look good in advance of the 2012 presidential election, an inspector general’s report concluded. 
The report follows allegations by a Census employee, Julius Buckmon, that he and others in the Philadelphia office were instructed to falsify data on two important reports.
On Sept. 7, 2012, the government announced a drop in unemployment to 8.2% from 8.1% during August, and in October, it announced a drop to 7.8% during September.
The investigation, which was released Thursday, determined that the announced unemployment figures were legitimate. There was “no evidence that management in the Philadelphia Regional Office instructed staff to falsify data at any time for any reason,” the report said.
“Further, we found no evidence of systemic data falsification in the Philadelphia Regional Office. We found no evidence that the national unemployment rate was manipulated by staff in the months leading up to the 2012 Presidential election.”
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