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The design of a census data collection process in essence amounts to deciding which methods of identification, enumeration, response, and coverage improvement should be applied at each of the steps; whether sampling methods (and the corresponding estimation methods) should be used at any of the four steps; and if sampling methods are used, which methods and at which steps.
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Recommendation 4.~: The Statistical Policy Office in the Office of Management and Budget should recognize statistical uses of administrative records as one of its major areas of responsibility and should assume an active role In facilitating more effective working relationships between statistical and program agencies and in tracking relevant legislation. ONE NUMBER CENSUS One key message is that the dual objectives of reducing the differential undercount and controlling costs will require expanded use of sampling and statistical estimation.
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Instead, response improvement research should now consolidate findings from research conducted to date in order to design experiments for the 1995 census test. The primary objective of these experiments should be to identify optimal field procedures that combine features such as advance notification replacement questionnaires, and telephone follow-up.
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The 1995 census test provides an excellent opportunity to conduct and evaluate promising media campaigns and local outreach programs. Recommendation 3.~: The Census Bureau should consider developing an extensive network of relations between field offices and local community resources.
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Address List Development The construction of an address list is a central element in decennial census operations, and the pane} believes the potential benefits are sufficient to justify development, starting in fiscal 1994, and maintenance of a continuously updated address file linked to a geographic database. Recommendation A.: The Census Bureau should continue aggressive development of the TIGER (topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing)
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These recommendations cover methods for lining records from one or more sources -- that is, mail questionnaires, telephone or personal interviews, or administrative data systems -- aimed at improving census accuracy by reducing both omissions and erroneous enumerations' the use of sampling and statistical estimation, outreach and promotion, racial and ethnic classification, the long-term use of administrative records, arid continuous data collection. Record Linkage Recommendation I.2: The Census Bureau should aggressively pursue its research program on record linkage.
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The Census Bureau should consider the alternatives of working directly with local and regional agencies, undertaking paid media research, and supplementing pro bono advertising with paid advertising in hard-to-enumerate localities. The Differential Undercount and Racial and Ethnic Classification .Reco~nendation 3.9: The Census Bureau should conduct further comparative studies of hard-to-enumerate areas, focusing on those parts of the country where three phenomena coincide: a shortage of affordable housing, a high proportion of undocumented immigrants, and the presence of low-income neighborhoods.
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Continuous Data Collection Recommendation 5.~: The Census Bureau should continue to explore the feasibility of a continuous measurement component to the 2000 census. Recommendation 5.2: The Census Bureau should establish a formal set of goals for a continuous measurement program.
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