Designing the 2010 Census First Interim Report (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Therefore, the panel proposes that the Census Bureau consider expanding or refocusing the Content Reinterview Survey to measure elements of response bias, particularly for census short-form items. To examine this, "Be Counted" forms, telephone responses, and Internet responses which are all short form responses should be sampled, and at a greater than proportional rate, in the Content Reinterview Survey.
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These data could come from administrative records or from expanding the Content Reinterview Survey to include a bias evaluation component, as described above. Collecting Comprehensive Cost Data Costs of the decennial census have grown in real terms for several censuses (National Research Council, 1995)
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The panel encourages the Census Bureau to develop similar studies for use in the 2000 census, and to make the plans for these studies available for review to various census advisory groups. Preparing for Large Numbers of Internet Responses Finally, the panel is concerned that the number of households using the option of the Internet for responding to the census short-form questionnaire will exceed the capacity of the census webpage servers.
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