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Requirements for evaluating new data collection methodologies in the 1995 census test should include information on such characteristics as cost, yield, and gross error that are needed to inform cost-benefit judgments. CHAPTER 2 PRELIMINARY CENSUS DESIGN ISSUES Recommendation 2.1: The Census Bureau should continue aggressive development of the TIGER (topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing)
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be reconsidered if subsequent modifications to the mailout operation would permit all census mailings to be executed within the same calendar month using a midmonth reference date. Recommendation 2.4: The Statistical Policy Office of the Office of Management and Budget should develop a structure to permit the sharing of address lists among federal agencies and state and local governments including the Census Bureau and the Postal Service-for approved uses under appropriate conditions.
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Recommendation 3.4: The Census Bureau should consider developing an extensive network of relations between field offices and local community resources, particularly in hard-to-enumerate areas, and should examine the cost-effectiveness of maintaining this infrastructure in continuous operation between censuses. The Census Bureau should develop and implement pilot programs in conjunction with the 1995 census test in order to gather information about the potential costs and benefits of a large-scale local outreach program.
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the use of administrative records to improve estimates for nonsampled housing units. Recommendation 4.2: Differential undercount cannot be reduced to acceptable levels at acceptable costs without the use of integrated coverage measurement and the statistical methods associated with it.
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The Census Bureau should continue research to develop subnational demographic estimates, with particular attention to potential links between demographic analysis and further development of the continuous measurement prototype and the administrative records census option. Recommendation 4.7: Before the census, the Census Bureau should produce detailed documentation of statistical methodology to be used for estimation and modeling.
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Recommendation 5.5: Research on the production of population estimates from Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration records should continue as a joint initiative of these agencies with the Census Bureau and should focus on identifying measures that could serve to reduce coverage differentials and improve geographic precision. Recommendation 5.6: The Census Bureau should continue its development of a cost model for an administrative record census and should use the model to maintain current cost estimates for several versions of this option as they are developed.
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In conducting this work, the Census Bureau should establish, and continually reinforce, a commitment to simultaneous research and development of cost estimation, data collection and processing methods, estimation procedures, and user needs. Recommendation 6.2: The Census Bureau should initiate discussions with all potential users of continuous measurement data, including state and local governments and private-sector users.
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Such research should be assigned low priority relative to other decennial census research projects.
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