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Planning for the 2010 Census and the ACS Survey
Planning for the 2010 Census and the ACS Survey
Pages 34-39
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A MATCH STUDY OF THE CENSUS SHORT FORM AND THE ACS The decennial census makes use of one residence rule definition, the ACS uses a second, and a third approach is being tested in the alternative questionnaire studying As the Census Bureau is well aware (based on the Tithe difference between the census and the ACS residence rules stems from the fact that the ACS defines residence at a specific time while the decennial census defines residence as the predominant residence over a year.
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To learn more about this issue, the panel proposes an ACS-short-form match study in 2000 to examine this and other short-form measurement error issues.13 Another possible goal is to make use of some of the ideas in the Living Situation Survey in the 2010 version of the ACE survey. ADDRESS LIST IMPROVEMENT An accurate list of housing units will be needed for both the ACS and the 2010 census, making it a high-priority item.
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updates; determining how other sources of information, including commercially available lists and input from local users, can be used to overcome these deficits; determining how to facilitate effective data transfer between Census Bureau staff in Washington, staff in the regional census offices, and representatives of localities; and gaining an in-depth understanding of what actually happened in the 2000 LUCA program (and its implications for the entire address list review process)
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TARGETED REPLACEMENT QUESTIONNAIRES It was clear from the dress rehearsal that a targeted replacement questionnaire a second questionnaire that is mailed to housing units that fail to return the initial mailed census questionnaire would be likely to raise the mail response rate by around 7 percent. Such a rise would significantly reduce census costs and greatly aid subsequent census operations, probably improving the ultimate accuracy of the data collected.
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Formation of a technical working group could help to address many of these issues. LINKING RESPONSES FROM 1990 AND 2000 CENSUS QUESTIONS ON RACE AND ETHNICITY A sample of the Current Population Survey in the summer of 2000 will be used to develop a mapping between responses based on the question format and sequence relative to the race and ethnicity questions on the 1990 and the 2000 censuses.
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Also, it would be extremely useful if some sort of framework were established that made the Census Bureau aware, early on, of opportunities created by advances in technology, though the panel has no specific suggestions. Even more difficult, there is a need for the Census Bureau to be able to predict future technologies that would be useful in alternative census designs.
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