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Appendix E: A.C.E. Operations
Pages 417-432

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From page 417...
... This appendix covers six topics: sampling, address listing, and housing unit match (E.14; P-sample interviewing (Em; initial matching ant! targeted!
From page 418...
... from each stratum using equal probabilities, yielding about 29,000 block clusters containing about 2 million housing units, which were then visited by Census Bureau field! staff to clevelop aciciress lists.
From page 419...
... for the P-sample. E.1.e Last Step in Sampling: Reduce Housing Units in Large Block Clusters After completion of housing unit matching ant!
From page 420...
... E-sample. Table E.1 shows the clistribution of the P-sample by sampling stratum, number of block clusters, number of housing units, ant!
From page 422...
... Interviewers were to ascertain who lived at the address currently and who had lived there on Census Day, April 1. The computerized interview an innovation for 2000 was intended to reduce interviewer variance and to speed up data capture and processing by having interviewers send their completed interviews each evening over secure telephone lines to the Bureau's main computer center, in Bowie, Maryland.
From page 423...
... cocling (see ChiTclers et al., 2001~. On the P-sample sicle, the clerks searched for matches within a block cluster not only with E-sample people, but also with nonE-sample census people.
From page 424...
... in the TES clusters to identify census housing units in the surrounding ring of blocks. Only some cases in TES block clusters were incluclecl in the extenclec!
From page 425...
... E.4 FIELD FOLLOW-UP AND FINAL MATCHING Matching ant! correct enumeration rates wouIc!
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... for housing units that took account of the probabilities of selection at each phase of sampling. Then a weighting adjustment was Performer!
From page 428...
... outmovers by residence status probability, which was 1 for known Census Day residents and 0 for confirmed nonresidents) ; · P-sample matched nonmover cases (MNON)
From page 429...
... as the census count minus IIs, times the correct enumeration rate (CE/E) , times the inverse of the match rate, or ~ )
From page 430...
... Non-Hispanic Asianf 7. Non-Hispanic White or Some Other Raceg O 2 groups: owner, renter O 2 groups: owner, renter O 4 groups for owners: · High and low mail return rate · By type of metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
From page 431...
... -- All non-Hispanic people with Black as their only race; all non-Hispanic people with Black and American Indian or Native Alaska race not in Indian Country; all non-Hispanic people with Black and another single race group, except those living in Hawaii with Black and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander race. e All non-Hispanic people with Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander as their only race; all non-Hispanic people with Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and American Indian or Alaska Native race not in Indian Country; all non-Hispanic people with Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and Asian race; all people in Hawaii with Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander as their single or one of multiple races.
From page 432...
... This is why so-called completecase analysis is problematic, since the restriction of the analysis to those cases that have a complete response fails to adequately represent the contribution from those that have missing data. These distributional differences may be present not just unconditionally, but (often)


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