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Reengineering the 2010 Census: Risks and Challenges (2004)
Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT)

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Reengineering the 2010 Census: Risks and Challenges

Box 2.1 Basic Steps in Conducting the Decennial Census

Preparation

  1. Establish organizational and technical infrastructure

  2. Develop an address list

  3. Determine questionnaire content

  4. Design questionnaires and mailing materials

  5. Develop enumeration procedures and assign to areas of the country

  6. Design plan for coverage evaluation

  7. Establish advertising and outreach programs

Taking the Count

  1. Deliver questionnaires

  2. Follow up with nonresponding households

  3. Conduct coverage evaluation operations

Data Processing

  1. Capture data from completed questionnaires

  2. Apply editing, imputation, and unduplication procedures

  3. Tabulate and release data

Research (before, during, and after census)

  1. Test proposed operations and procedures

  2. Evaluate operations and procedures

  3. Design and conduct experiments and trials

of the address list. The address list, combined with other geographic resources, is also essential to the accurate tabulation of census results. In 2000, the Census Bureau’s address list—the Master Address File (MAF)—was constructed by augmenting the preserved 1990 address list with inputs from additional sources. The development of the 2000 MAF is described in detail in Section 3-A.1.

In 2000, as in previous censuses, a short-form questionnaire asking for basic data items was administered to most households, while a census long form asking the basic data items along with many other socioeconomic and demographic questions was administered to an approximate 1-in-6 sample of households. Hence, determination of questionnaire content (3) is an impor-

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