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1. Introduction
Pages 11-22

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From page 11...
... EVERY 10 YEARS, THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU faces a job of almost bewildering complexity: counting an ever-increasing, ever-moving, ever-cliversifying population and accurately tabulating it by location so that election districts anc!
From page 12...
... Supreme Court forbidding the use of sampling to generate numbers for congressional reapportionment. The decision forced the bureau to completely overhaul the census plan little more than a year from April 1, 2000, the census target ciate.
From page 13...
... anct its geographic database (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encocling and Referencing System, or TIGER) will be upclatect so that they will be consistent with coordinates clerivect using global positioning systems (GPS)
From page 14...
... An immediate adjunct to this three-prongecl strategy is the incorporation of new technology in the census process. In particular, the Census Bureau's emerging 2010 census plans take advantage of a shortform-only census by including the following acictitional components: · Multiple response modes.
From page 15...
... These include: · collection of census data from group quarters; · enumeration of various harct-to-enumerate populations; · use of administrative records either for nonresponse follow-up or acictress list improvement; · forms of data dissemination; · question worcling, specifically with regard to the nature and content of questions on race and Hispanic origin; and · plans for coverage measurement and evaluation. Planning Milestones of the 2010 Census The Census Bureau plans to conduct at least four major census tests prior to 2010 in orcler to try out new procedures anct finalize program plans.
From page 16...
... and rewording of race and Hispanic origin questions 2004 Conduct Census Field Test, emphasizing use of mobile computing devices, in selected sites in New York, Illinois, and Georgia; Conduct Overseas Enumeration Test in France, Kuwait, and Mexico 2005 Analyze results and refine methodology 2006 Conduct Census Test, involving prototype technical systems 2007 Analyze results and refine and integrate systems and methods 2008 Dress rehearsal 2009 Begin to implement operations 2010 Conduct census SOURCES: Waite (2002~; U.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office (2003b)
From page 17...
... The seconct hiatus occurrect cluring the summer anct fall of 2001 as the Census Bureau engaged in intensive research over the question of whether to statistically adjust census data for estimated unclercount.5 However, the work of the panel continucct cluring these hiatus periods in the absence of formal panel meetings. Members of the panel joined members of its sister CNSTAT panel the Panel to Review the 2000 Census to visit census operations centers anc!
From page 18...
... from lack of attention to integration. It was unclear how the various pieces of the proposed plan interact anct sup
From page 19...
... Structure of This Report In Chapter 2, we examine one segment of 2010 census planning in which the notion of integration is solicily established anct uncler way. Since 2000, the Census Bureau has sponsored a pilot project to clocument the logical architecture of the decennial census essentially, to map all activities anct their information clepenclencies involved in the
From page 20...
... assembling the actual physical technical infrastructure of the census anct the myriad computer information systems that must work in sync to achieve census goals. In subsequent chapters of this report, we then turn to the other two major initiatives envisioned in the Census Bureau's 2010 strategy, noting our concerns that it is not yet clear how these two broacI-stroke initiatives will achieve clesirect goals either on their own or in concert with each other.
From page 21...
... Incluclect within the early integrated planning component of the Census Bureau's 2010 strategy is the goal of maximizing the benefit of early, comprehensive testing of revisect census processes over the course of the clecacle. Major census tests are plannec!


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