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Pages 97-102

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From page 97...
... "Be Counted." A census program that makes census questionnaires available in public places for return, makes census questionnaires available in foreign languages by telephone, and permits responding to the census by telephone. Casing check.
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From page 98...
... A method that uses various administrative records (especially birth and death records, information on immigration and emigration, and Medicare records) and information from previous censuses to estimate the total number of people in various demographic groups resident in the United States on a specific date, and therefore their census undercoverage.
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From page 99...
... Sequential hot deck imputation fills in information from a previously processed respondent (and therefore geographically close) with other similar characteristics.
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From page 100...
... The field operation whereby census enumerators attempt to obtain completed questionnaires from interviewing members of households for which no questionnaire was returned as part of mailout/mailback. When done on a 100 percent basis, it is referred to as nonresponse follow-up (NRFU)
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From page 101...
... A file of census enumerations, including those added through the use of integrated coverage measurement, which provides household characteristics for the ICM enumerations (and possibly changes in household characteristics for some enumerated in the traditional manner) so that the enumerations added through use of integrated coverage measurement are not distinguishable.
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From page 102...
... in the decennial census. More specifically, gross undercoverage and gross undercount are the rate or number of those missed for a demographic group or geographic area (similarly for gross overcoverage and gross overcount)
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Key Terms

  • coverage measurement
  • decennial census
  • housing units
  • integrated coverage
  • address list

  • questionnaires available
  • census records
  • makes census
  • replacement forms
  • integrated geographic

  • short form
  • census enumeration
  • household characteristics
  • geographic encoding
  • erroneously included

  • geographic location
  • census enumerations
  • topologically integrated
  • census questionnaires
  • people missed

  • net undercoverage
  • pes blocks
  • census data
  • census bureau
  • program covers

  • final test
  • individuals reported
  • various administrative
  • basic demographic
  • survey conducted


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