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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... sample basis, and reported on in census evaluations, in order to direct research over the next decade and fuller implementation in 2020. Finally, no recent census has allowed respondents the ability to directly indicate that they ...
... sample were particularly marred by extremely high levels of item nonresponse. The latter failure—the quality of long-form-sample data— will be obviated in the 2010 census by the advent of the American Community Survey (ACS) and ...
... sample in the 2010 census should be a major focus of residence-related research by the Census Bureau because its residence standard differs from the decennial census. Specifically, the ACS uses a “two-month rule” or “current residence ...
... sample. Through this change, the U.S. Census Bureau hopes not only to provide more immediate and accurate data on the detailed economic and demographic topics formerly covered on the census long form, but also to streamline and focus ...
... sampling of nonresponding households rather than comprehensive follow-up. The Census Bureau's test schedules—and the difficulty of making changes in census procedure in a short time frame—limit the ability of this panel to effect major ...
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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 |