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Executive Summary
Pages 17-22

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From page 17...
... House of Representatives; draw new boundaries for legislative districts; allocate billions of dollars in federal and state funds; support public and private sector planning, decision making, and research; undergird estimates from other government statistical programs; and serve as a valuable reference for the media and the general public. Census information is the product of a massive, complex, and costly set of operations.
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From page 18...
... The panel has considered statistical data on census operations, the A.C.E. Program, imputation for missing information on census questionnaires, late additions to the census counts, mail return rates, and demographic analysis.
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From page 19...
... However, until the Census Bureau completes additional studies of error in the A.C.E., the panel cannot offer a definitive assessment of it. POPULATION COVERAGE The net undercount of the population, as measured by the A.C.E., declined from about 4 million people (1.6 percent of the population)
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From page 20...
... People Requiring Imputation The panel found a large part of the explanation for the reduction in net undercount in the group of people who had insufficient information (concerning name and other characteristics) to carry out the individual matching required in the core of the A.C.E.
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From page 21...
... They were about equally likely to be found among historically better-counted groups as among historically worse-counted groups, so they did not affect differences in net undercount rates. DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS The Census Bureau's initial population estimates obtained through demographic analysis a technique that uses birth, death, and Medicare records and estimates of net immigration to build an estimate of the population were lower than the estimates from the census and the A.C.E.
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... It should lead a research effort by appropriate federal agencies and outside experts to develop improved methods and sources of data for estimating legal and illegal immigrants in surveys and administrative records as input to demographic analysis and for other uses.
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