Planning the 2010 Census Second Interim Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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MAF/TIGER Enhancements Program. A specific set of improvements has been proposed to improve the Census Bureau's actclress list (Master Aclclress File, or MAF)
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The Census Bureau hopes that early attention to planning will make census tests leacling up to 2010 more informative and useful. The Census Bureau's emerging 2010 census plan also includes clevelopment of mobile computing crevices for use in nonresponse followup work and use of multiple response mocles (mail, Internet, and telephone)
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It concentrates primarily on two areas in which the Census Bureau has been particularly active anct in which information has been most available to the panel: modernization of the bureau's geographic resources anct efforts to moclel anct develop the technical infrastructure of the census. This report also offers initial comment on the American Community Survey.
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Reengineering a comprehensive technical infrastructure supportive of the 2010 census business process moclel will require considerable resources anct close collaboration among all Census Bureau units. It will also require a strong coordinator, whom we refer to as the system architect for the decennial census, along with a cleclicatec!
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to what extent CAUS acictress listing cluties might detract from their work in following up with ACS respondents. We are assuming that the Census Bureau hopes to avoict a complete block canvass prior to the 2010 census, given the cost of that operation anct the fact that it was treated as a last resort in 2000.
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The panel further recommends that the Census Bureau would benefit from vesting responsibility for coordinating MAF improvement and research in one office, since this responsibility is currently diffused over several divisions of the Census Bureau (Recommendation MAFIA. Finally, the panel suggests that the bureau promptly develop and describe plans for local geographic partnerships (Recommendation MAFIA.
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However, given that funding for the ACS is not yet securecl, the Census Bureau must begin contingency planning to be prepared in the event that full functing is not proviclect (Recommenclation ACS-4~. PLANS FOR TESTING The Census Bureau plans to conduct at least four major census tests prior to 2010 in orcler to try out new procedures anc!
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ASSESSING THE OVERALL STRATEGY A major conclusion of the panel is that discussion of the 2010 census design neects to be more fully informed by the evaluation of various tracle-offs the costs anct benefits of various reasonable approaches in orcler to make wise decisions. For example, there are costs anc!
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That clone, the Census Bureau must subsequently take stock of what it has learned from the evaluation studies, flesh out the 2010 census plan with empirical support, and fill gaps in knowledge through further analysis of 2000 census operational data or through census tests.
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