ISBN:
9780309051828
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (480 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Modernizing the U.S. Census
DDC:
304.60973
Keywords:
United States ; Census ; Methodology
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United States ; Census ; Planning
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United States ; Bureau of the Census
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Modernizing the U.S. Census -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Summary -- OVERALL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION -- A REDESIGNED CENSUS -- Statistical Estimation -- Improving Response -- Reducing Costs -- Support for the New Design -- CENSUS CONTENT AND THE LONG FORM -- DATA ON RACE AND ETHNICITY -- SOME RADICAL ALTERNATIVES TO THE CENSUS -- A National Register -- An Administrative Records Census -- A Census Conducted by the U.S. Postal Service -- A Sample or Rolling Census -- INTERCENSAL SMALL-AREA DATA -- 1 The Role of the Census -- OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT -- THE NEED FOR CENSUS DATA -- Data Needs for Reapportionment and Redistricting -- Other Data Needs -- Federal Agency Needs for Census Data -- Needs of Other Data Users -- Conclusion About Data Needs -- CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING APPROACHES TO THE CENSUS -- NOTES -- 2 Population Coverage and Its Implications -- COVERAGE ESTIMATES -- Coverage Errors -- Undercount by Subgroups -- Errors in Small-Area Data -- IMPLICATIONS OF UNDERENUMERATION -- Effects on Congressional Apportionment -- Effects on Distribution of Federal Funds -- NOTES -- 3 Census Cost Increases and Their Causes -- GENERAL FACTORS -- SPECIFIC FACTORS AND MARGINAL COSTS -- Census Content -- Changes in Population and Housing -- Mail Response Rates -- Other Factors -- Census Cost Changes -- Census Staff Productivity -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- 4 Radical Alternatives -- A NATIONAL REGISTER FOR THE BASIC CENSUS -- AN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS CENSUS -- A CENSUS CONDUCTED BY THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE -- A ROLLING OR SAMPLE CENSUS -- NOTES -- 5 A Redesigned Census -- TWO APPROACHES TO COUNTING THE POPULATION -- Census Bureau Plans -- Legal Issues of Statistical Estimation -- BASIC ELEMENTS OF A NEW CENSUS DESIGN -- Decreasing the Intensity of Nonresponse Follow-Up -- Sampling for Nonresponse Follow-Up.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Modernizing the U.S. Census""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Summary""; ""OVERALL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION""; ""A REDESIGNED CENSUS""; ""Statistical Estimation""; ""Improving Response""; ""Reducing Costs""; ""Support for the New Design""; ""CENSUS CONTENT AND THE LONG FORM""; ""DATA ON RACE AND ETHNICITY""; ""SOME RADICAL ALTERNATIVES TO THE CENSUS""; ""A National Register""; ""An Administrative Records Census""; ""A Census Conducted by the U.S. Postal Service""; ""A Sample or Rolling Census""; ""INTERCENSAL SMALL-AREA DATA""
Description / Table of Contents:
""1 The Role of the Census""""OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT""; ""THE NEED FOR CENSUS DATA""; ""Data Needs for Reapportionment and Redistricting""; ""Other Data Needs""; ""Federal Agency Needs for Census Data""; ""Needs of Other Data Users""; ""Conclusion About Data Needs""; ""CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING APPROACHES TO THE CENSUS""; ""NOTES""; ""2 Population Coverage and Its Implications""; ""COVERAGE ESTIMATES""; ""Coverage Errors""; ""Undercount by Subgroups""; ""Errors in Small-Area Data""; ""IMPLICATIONS OF UNDERENUMERATION""; ""Effects on Congressional Apportionment""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Effects on Distribution of Federal Funds""""NOTES""; ""3 Census Cost Increases and Their Causes""; ""GENERAL FACTORS""; ""SPECIFIC FACTORS AND MARGINAL COSTS""; ""Census Content""; ""Changes in Population and Housing""; ""Mail Response Rates""; ""Other Factors""; ""Census Cost Changes""; ""Census Staff Productivity""; ""SUMMARY""; ""NOTES""; ""4 Radical Alternatives""; ""A NATIONAL REGISTER FOR THE BASIC CENSUS""; ""AN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS CENSUS""; ""A CENSUS CONDUCTED BY THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE""; ""A ROLLING OR SAMPLE CENSUS""; ""NOTES""; ""5 A Redesigned Census""
Description / Table of Contents:
""TWO APPROACHES TO COUNTING THE POPULATION""""Census Bureau Plans""; ""Legal Issues of Statistical Estimation""; ""BASIC ELEMENTS OF A NEW CENSUS DESIGN""; ""Decreasing the Intensity of Nonresponse Follow-Up""; ""Sampling for Nonresponse Follow-Up""; ""Truncation of Enumeration After a Reasonable Effort""; ""Alternative Techniques of Truncation""; ""What Determines a Reasonable Effort""; ""Survey-Based Methods to Complete the Count""; ""ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO IMPROVE ACCURACY AND REDUCE COSTS""; ""Improve Response Rates""; ""A Simplified Questionnaire Design""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Respondent-Friendly Long Forms and the Use of Appeals""""Partnerships with State and Local Governments""; ""Partnership with the U.S. Postal Service""; ""Current Role""; ""Expanded Role""; ""A REENGINEERED CENSUS""; ""BUILDING PUBLIC SUPPORT""; ""NOTES""; ""6 Census Content""; ""THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING CENSUS CONTENT""; ""THE LONG FORM""; ""Costs""; ""Mail Return Rates""; ""Effects in 1980 and 1990""; ""Experiments to Improve Response""; ""Conclusions""; ""Coverage""; ""Matrix Sampling""; ""CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT""; ""Costs""; ""Cost Savings from Dropping the Long Form""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Continuous Measurement Cost Estimates""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
