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103-430~. The law that enabled two innovations in the construction of the Master Address File for the 2000 census: the Local Update of Census Addresses Program (allowing local governments to receive and review the address list)
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are said to be outside the blue line. The term derives from the color used on initial sets of maps generated prior to the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)
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Advantages include avoiding errors in skip patterns, providing immediate edit checks, and expediting electronic data capture. Computer-assisted interviewing (CAI)
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, in which lists of these individuals were checked to see whether they were enumerated, and the non-household sources program, in which several administrative record lists were matched to census records to try to identify people missed in the census for purposes of field follow-up (used in 19801. For the 2000 census, coverage improvement refers more to efforts to complete the address list, use of multiple response modes, and service-based enumeration.
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. The committee of senior Census Bureau staff charged with analyzing information from the 2000 census and Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation in order to decide whether census counts should be adjusted for net undercoat.
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~meration survey and some type of estimation method, e.g., dual-systems estimation, to produce adjusted census counts in time for apportionment and therefore all uses of census data. ICM was a key part of initial Census Bureau plans for the 2000 census, but was abandoned after the Supreme Court's 1999 decision ruling out the use of sampling in generating apportionment counts.
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. A Census Bureau program in which local officials were given the opportunity to review individual addresses on the Master Address File and make corrections, additions, and deletions to that list, and to make corrections to census maps to match any changes that may be needed.
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. The field operation whereby census enumerators attempt to obtain completed questionnaires from interviewing members of households for which no questionnaire was returned in the mail.
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Special place. A place where people live or stay that is different from the usual private house, apartment, or mobile home and that requires different decennial census procedures.
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in the decennial census. More specifically, gross undercoverage and gross undercount are the rate or number of those missed for a demographic group or geographic area (similarly for gross overcoverage and gross overcount)
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