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Research Experiments
Pages 19-24

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... . Incentives for Alternative Response ModLes For a sample of households, the Census Bureau will examine whether offering free time on a telephone calling card increases the frequency of respondents' use of the telephone or the Internet to provide their census responses.
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... · Alternative Questionnaire Stodgy For a sample of households, the Census Bureau will examine whether alternative questionnaires with changes to one of the following the overall appearance of the census questionnaire, the order and wording of questions on ethnicity and race, and the wording of the question concerning the definition of household residence result in improved levels or accuracy of response. · Stodgy of AttitudLes on Confidentiality and the Use of Social Security NumIDers For a sample of households, the Census Bureau will examine attitudes toward requests for social security numbers on census forms and notification of their use in linking to administrative records to support statistical analyses.
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... , the use of administrative records as a data collection method. The goal of this test is to better understand the potential for merged lists of administrative records to deliver content and geographic detail, especially sufficient coverage, that meet reapportionment and redistricting requirements.
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... A two-way match of the list of census enumerations and the merged administrative records list is a very important addition to this ex periment. Recommendation: The Census Bureau should modify the plans for AREX 2000 to include a match of the merged administrative records list with the 2000 census households.
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... . (Besides providing information on the non-elderly poor, both food stamp and Medicaid files are the two obvious candidate record systems for augmenting Internal Revenue Service LIRS]
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... The panel strongly recommends that the Census Bureau, very likely in conjunction with other federal agencies and in conjunction with academia and research organizations through directed research, examine how to improve the race/ethnicity data available from administrative records and what the social and political implications would be as a result of the addition of this information to administrative records. Sixth, these applications obviously require the matching and unduplication of records both from within a single administrative records system and across systems.
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