Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place: Residence Rules in the Decennial CensusNational Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census National Academies Press, 16 Nov 2006 - 376 halaman The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other recent censuses have relied on a set of residence rules to craft instructions on the census questionnaire in order to guide respondents to identify their correct "usual residence." Determining the proper place to count such groups as college students, prisoners, and military personnel has always been complicated and controversial; major societal trends such as placement of children in shared custody arrangements and the prevalence of "snowbird" and "sunbird" populations who regularly move to favorable climates further make it difficult to specify ties to one household and one place. Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place reviews the evolution of current residence rules and the way residence concepts are presented to respondents. It proposes major changes to the basic approach of collecting residence information and suggests a program of research to improve the 2010 and future censuses. |
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... major experiment to test a form that asks a sufficient number of residence questions to determine the residence situation of each person, rather than requiring respondents to follow complicated residence instructions in formulating ...
... major experiment instead. A major test of census residence concepts, conducted in conjunction with the 2010 census, should be the basis for postcensal development leading to the 2020 census. This test should include both a questionbased ...
... major survey programs. Together with the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system database, the MAF provides the key linkage between personal census questionnaire responses and specific geographic ...
... Major growth in the prison population, accompanied by expansion in the number of correctional facilities maintained by the federal government and the states, has prompted challenges to the Census Bureau's “usual residence” standard ...
... major omnibus tests and experiments performed by the Bureau often combine multiple topics and treatments so that effects of specific changes are difficult or impossible to determine. When designing experimental tests, the Census Bureau ...
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Development and Interpretation | 23 |
Challenges in Defining Residence | 59 |
3 The Nonhousehold Population | 61 |
4 Complex and Ambiguous Living Situations | 113 |
Living Situations and the Census | 165 |
7 Nonhousehold Enumeration | 225 |
8 Operations Research and Testing | 249 |
References | 273 |
Appendixes | 293 |
AResidence Rules of the 2000 Census | 295 |
BResidence Concepts and Questionsin Selected Foreign Censuses | 303 |
CAmericans Residing Overseas | 327 |
DBiographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff | 339 |
Part III Improvements for the Future | 179 |
6 Residence Principles for the Decennial Census | 181 |
Index | 343 |