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9 Management and Research
Pages 325-338

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... . 9-A ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE 9-A.1 2000 Census Organization The 2000 census organizational structure was similar in broac!
From page 326...
... , and the Decennial Systems and Contracts Management Office, which housed the programmers responsible for data processing and supervised contractors for three of the four data capture centers and other contractor operations. The associate director for field operations oversaw data collection by the Field Division, which at the time of the 2000 census encompassed 12 permanent regional offices, 12 regional census centers, the Puerto Rico area office, 520 temporary local census offices (and 6 offices in Puerto Rico)
From page 327...
... External input was sought from our Panel to Review the 2000 Census, the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods, the Secretary of Commerce's 2000 Census Advisory Committee, the Census Bureau's Professional Associations Advisory Committee, ant! advisory committees for minority groups.
From page 328...
... to operate as incliviclual fiefdoms. For example, the Population Division clevelopecl the address list for group quarters with little coorclination with the Geography Division staff that hac!
From page 329...
... useful evaluations of those operations (see also IBM Business Consulting Services, 2003; Morganstein et al., 2003~. Finding 9.1: From the panel's observations ant!
From page 330...
... the implementation of imputation routines. 9-B EVALUATION PROGRAM 9-B.1 Completing 2000 Census Evaluations The Census Bureau clevelopec!
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... Consequently, the evaluation staff hac! to devote substantial time to obtaining usable data, leaving relatively little time for analysis.
From page 332...
... Some of them provide a well-rounded picture of broad aspects of census operations, such as data capture and outreach programs, but others do not add much beyond the individual evaluations. Both the individual evaluations and topic reports tend to focus on specific slices of census operations (e.g., data capture, data processing)
From page 333...
... , the Census Bureau for the first time is cleveloping a Master Trace Sample of information from all of the various 2000 census operations for a sample of aciciresses (processes relater! specifically to Tong-form items are not incluclec!
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... Recommendation 9.1: The Census Bureau should mine data sources created during the 2000 census process, such as the A.C.E. data, Person Duplication Studies, extracts from the Master Address File, a match of census records and the March 2000 Current Population Survey, and the Master Trace Sample.
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... . A critical element of a successful evaluation program , is sufficient well-trainecl and experienced staff to identify evaluation needs, specify evaluation requirements for census data systems and clocumentation, ant!
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... , the Census Bureau must materially strengthen the evaluation component for census operations and data quality in 2010 (and in the current testing program) in the following ways: 1.
From page 337...
... E-sample and Psample output files, for example, should be deposited with the Bureau's Research Data Centers. To help the Bureau evaluate population coverage and data quality in the 2010 census, the Bureau should seek waysusing the experience with the Panel to Review the 2000 Census as a model to furnish preliminary data, including microdata, to qualified researchers under arrangements that protect confidentiality.
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... ASSESSMENT OF 2000 CENSUS OPERATIONS Finding 4.1: The use of a redesigned questionnaire and mailing strategy and, to a more limited extent, of expanded advertising and outreach—major innovations in the 2000 census contributed to the success achieved by the Census Bureau in stemming the decline in mail response rates observed in the two previous censuses. This success helped reduce the costs and time of follow-up activities.


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