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... Although the Census Bureau has taken some useful organizational and administrative steps to prepare for 2020, the panel offers three core recommendations, by which we suggest that the Census Bureau take an assertive, aggressive approach to 2020 planning rather than casting possibilities purely as hypothetical. The first recommendation on research and development suggests four broad topic areas for research early in the decade: Recommendation 1: The Census Bureau should focus its re search and development efforts on four priority topic areas, in order to achieve a lower cost and high-quality 2020 census: • Field Reengineering -- applying modern operations engi neering to census field data collection operations to make the deployment of staff and the processing of operational data more efficient; • Response Options -- emphasizing multiple modes of re sponse to the census for both respondent convenience and data quality, including provision for response via the Inter net; • Administrative Records -- using records-based information to supplement and improve a wide variety of census opera tions; and • Continuous Improvement of Geographic Resources -- ensuring that the Census Bureau's geographic databases, 1
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... Accordingly, we urge the Bureau to publicly set ambitious goals regarding the cost and quality of the 2020 census: Recommendation 3: The Census Bureau should motivate its planning and reengineering for the 2020 census by setting a clear and publicly announced goal to reduce significantly (and not just contain) the inflation-adjusted per housing unit cost relative to 2010 census totals, while limiting the extent of gross and net census errors to levels consistent with both user needs and cost targets.
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... SUMMARY 3 local, and tribal governments can provide geographic updates in an easy and reliable manner is important; the critical focus of the work should be in the development of quality metrics, to finally be able to provide hard answers to questions of how good the Bureau's address lists and street-map coverages are for specific areas.
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