Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place: Residence Rules in the Decennial Census

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/11727

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Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place

Residence Rules in the Decennial Census

(2006)

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.

Contributor(s): National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census; Daniel L. Cork and Paul R. Voss, Editors

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National Research Council. 2006. Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place: Residence Rules in the Decennial Census. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11727.

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376 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Hardcover: 978-0-309-10299-5
Ebook: 978-0-309-16457-3

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/11727

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xx
Executive Summary	1-12
I Residence and the Census - 1 Introduction	13-22
2 Residence Rules: Development and Interpretation	23-58
II Residence Rules Meet Real Life: Challenges in Defining Residence - 3 The Nonhousehold Population	59-112
4 Complex and Ambiguous Living Situations	113-164
5 Mirroring America: Living Situations and the Census	165-178
III Improvements for the Future - 6 Residence Principles for the Decennial Census	179-224
7 Nonhousehold Enumeration	225-248
8 Operations, Research, and Testing	249-272
References	273-292
Appendix A Residence Rules of the 2000 Census	293-302
Appendix B Residence Concepts and Questions in Selected Foreign Censuses	303-326
Appendix C Americans Residing Overseas	327-338
Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff	339-342
Index	343-356

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