Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place:

Residence Rules in the Decennial Census

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Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census, Daniel L. Cork and Paul R. Voss, Editors, National Research Council
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The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other recent censuses have relied on a set of residence rules ...
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Front Matter	i-xx
Executive Summary	1-12	(skim)
I Residence and the Census - 1 Introduction	13-22	(skim)
2 Residence Rules: Development and Interpretation	23-58	(skim)
II Residence Rules Meet Real Life: Challenges in Defining Residence - 3 The Nonhousehold Population	59-112	(skim)
4 Complex and Ambiguous Living Situations	113-164	(skim)
5 Mirroring America: Living Situations and the Census	165-178	(skim)
III Improvements for the Future - 6 Residence Principles for the Decennial Census	179-224	(skim)
7 Nonhousehold Enumeration	225-248	(skim)
8 Operations, Research, and Testing	249-272	(skim)
References	273-292	(skim)
Appendix A Residence Rules of the 2000 Census	293-302	(skim)
Appendix B Residence Concepts and Questions in Selected Foreign Censuses	303-326	(skim)
Appendix C Americans Residing Overseas	327-338	(skim)
Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff	339-342	(skim)
Index	343-356	(skim)

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The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other recent censuses have relied on a set of residence rules to craft instructions on the census questionnaire in order to guide respondents to identify their correct "usual residence." Determining the proper place to count such groups as college students, prisoners, and military personnel has always been complicated and controversial; major societal trends such as placement of children in shared custody arrangements and the prevalence of "snowbird" and "sunbird" populations who regularly move to favorable climates further make it difficult to specify ties to one household and one place. Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place reviews the evolution of current residence rules and the way residence concepts are presented to respondents. It proposes major changes to the basic approach of collecting residence information and suggests a program of research to improve the 2010 and future censuses.

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Residence Rules in the Decennial Census

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