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10 Detailed Findings and Recommendations
10 Detailed Findings and Recommendations
Pages 339-352
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Recommendation 3.1: The Census Bureau, the administration, and Congress should agree on the basic census design for 2010 no later than 2006 in order to permit an appropriate, well-planned dress rehearsal in 2008. Recommendation 3.2: The Census Bureau, the administration, and Congress should agree on the overall scheme for the 2010 census and the new American Community Survey (ACS)
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Recommendation 4.1: The Census Bureau must proceed quickly to work with vendors to determine cost-effective, timely ways to mail a second questionnaire to nonresponding households in the 2010 census, in order to improve mail response rates, in a manner that minimizes duplicate enumerations. Finding 4.2: Contracting for selectee!
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Recommendation 4.3: Because a complete, accurate Master Address File is not only critical for the 2010 census, but also important for the 2008 dress rehearsal, the new American Community Survey, and other Census Bureau surveys, the Bureau must develop more effective procedures for updating and correcting the MAF
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3. To support adequate assessment of the MAF for the 2010 census, the Census Bureau must plan evaluations well in advance so that the MAF records can be assigned appropriate address source codes and other useful variables for evaluation.
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In many respects, the A.C.E. was an improvement over the 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey, achieving such successes as high response rates to the P-sample survey, low missing data rates, improver!
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Finding 6.3: We support the Census Bureau's decision not to use the March 2003 Revision II A.C.E. coverage measurement results to adjust the 2000 census base counts for the Bureau's postcensal population estimates program.
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Contributing to duplication were problems in developing the Master Address File and respondent confusion about or misinterpretation of census "usual residence" rules, which resulted in duplication of household members with two homes and people who were enumerated at home and in group quarters. Recommendation 6.1: The Census Bureau and administration should request, and Congress should provide, funding for the development and implementation of an improved Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Program for the 2010 census.
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the investigation of possible correlation bias adjustments for additional population groups. Recommendation 6.2: The Census Bureau should strengthen its program to improve demographic analysis estimates, in concert with other statistical agencies that use and provide data inputs to the postcensal population estimates.
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age, sex, race, ethnicity, household relationship, and housing tenure. Missing data rates for these items ranged from 2 to 5 percent (including records for people with one or more missing items and people who were wholly imputed)
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. Recommendation 7.2: The Census Bureau should make users aware of the high missing data rates and measures of inconsistent reporting for many long-form-sample items, and inform users of the 2000 census long-form-sample data products (Summary Files 3 and 4 and the Public Use Microdata Samples)
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Recommendation 7.3: The Census Bureau should publish distributions of characteristics and item imputation rates, for the 2010 census and the American Community Survey (when it includes group quarters residents) , that distinguish household residents from the group quarters population (at least the institutionalized component)
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use for understanding the quality of the 2000 census or for planning the 2010 census. Finding 9.2: The quality of documentation and usability varies among internal 2000 census data files ant!
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Recommendation 9.1: The Census Bureau should mine data sources created during the 2000 census process, such as the A.C.E. data, Person Duplication Studies, extracts from the Master Address File, a match of census records and the March 2000 Current Population Survey, and the Master Trace Sample.
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E-sample and P-sample output files, for example, should be deposited with the Bureau's Research Data Centers. To help the Bureau evaluate population coverage and data quality in the 2010 census, the Bureau should seek ways using the experience with the Pane} to Review the 2000 Census as a mode} to furnish preliminary data, including microdata, to qualified researchers under arrangements that protect confidentiality.
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