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Appendix A: Panel Activities and Prior Reports
Appendix A: Panel Activities and Prior Reports
Pages 353-374
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Titled The 2000 Census: Interim Assessment, the interim report assessed the Census Bureau's March 2001 recommendation regarding statistical adjustment of census data for redistricting and reviewed census operations. By design, the interim report did not address the Census Bureau's decision on adjustment for non-redistricting purposes, which was anticipated to occur on or about October 15 (the decision was actually announced on October 17~.
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by members of the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods in visiting local and regional offices during various phases of census operations. Visits concluctec!
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Open and closed sessions. Open session held jointly with Panel on Research on Future Census Methods.
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Bruce Petrie, Heather Koball Atlanta, GA July 28 Robert Hauser, Heather Koball Data Capture Center Baltimore, MD March 30 David Binderb, William Eddy, Sallie Keller-McNultyb, Janet Norwood, Joseph Salvob, Allen Schirmb, Michael Cohen, Heather Koball, Andrew White NOTES: All visits (except to data capture centers) included panel members and staff accompanying census enumerators during their work; the Rochester, NY, visit was to the local census office before follow-up commenced.
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office. b Member, Panel on Research on Future Census Methods.
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is sue s for determining p o ststrata for estimation, obtaining the final sample of block clusters from a larger initial sample, ant! imputing values for missing responses on characteristics needler!
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It represents good, current practice in both sample design ant! posts/ratification design, as well as in the interrelationships between the two.
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ICM, the Census Bureau will first identify a sample of block clusters containing approximately 2 million housing units ant! then will inclepenclently develop a new list of aciciresses for those blocks.3 In a seconc!
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The current plan to produce poststrata involves modification of the 357-cell posts/ratification design suggested for use in 1990-basecl intercensal estimation. Current modifications under consideration by the Census Bureau inclucle expansion of the geographic stratification for non-Hispanic whites from four regions to nine census 4The Census Bureau is aware that mixtures of strategies (2)
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Observations and Comments Sample Design to Select the 300,000 Housing Units Because of the need to keep the A.C.E. on schedule by initiating resource allocations that support the independent listing of the 2 million addresses relatively soon, as well as the need to avoid development and testing of new computer software, the Census Bureau has decided to subsample the 300,000 A.C.E.
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In aciclition, the panel notes that the removal of the requirement for direct state estimates permits a substantial reduction in sample size from the 750,000 ICM design in sparsely populates! states, for which A.C.E.
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The state minima will support direct state estimates that will be fairly reliable for many states. The Census Bureau should consider using the direct state estimates not only for vaTiciation, but also in estimation in case of a failure of the assumption that there will be no important state effects on unclercoverage factors.
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We believe it is extremely important that analyses at substate levels of aggregation be concluctec! to inform both the sample design ant!
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The balancing of competing goals is not only a poststratification issue, but also a sample design issue. For example, if block clusters that contain large proportions of a specific demographic group are substantially unclerrepresentec!
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for the ICM. · The panel believes that removal of the constraint to produce direct state estimates justifies the substantial reduction in the A.C.E.
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estimation procedure, involving use of direct state estimates in combination Dr. Kenneth Prewitt Director U.S.
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The papers presented at the panel workshop provide evidence of the hard work and professional competence of Census Bureau staff in specifying a series of evaluations that can inform the adjustment decision. The panel recognizes the clifficult task facet!
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, which is charged to recommencT an adjustment decision to the Bureau director, as well as for the professional community ancT stakeholclers. The panel believes it would be useful for all concerned parties for the Census Bureau to develop a summary tabular presentation of the factors affecting its .
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A sound recommendation will ultimately rest on professional judgment informed by the available scientific evidence. However, we believe that preparation of a summary presentation of key evidence will assist ESCAP to integrate what will necessarily be a large volume of complex information, some of which may be conflicting, in reaching an adjustment decision.
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A.4.c November 2001 Letter Report The panel issued a third letter report in November 2001, regarcTing the Census Bureau's October 2001 decision not to adjust 2000 census ciata for such purposes as funcT allocation. This letter is not reproclucecT here since it was printed in full in our interim report (National Research Council, 2001a)
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374 THE 2000 CENSUS: COUNTING UNDER ADVERSITY Asked in Census 2000 2000 Census Item Asked in 1990 Census? Supplementary Survey?
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