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Appendix G: 2000 Census Basic (Complete-Count) Data Processing
Appendix G: 2000 Census Basic (Complete-Count) Data Processing
Pages 455-468
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ciate of birth, · sex, · race, · ethnicity (Hispanic origin) , · relationship to reference person (first person listed on the questionnaire)
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Keying of Tong-formsample information was set aside in the processing to permit the fastest possible keying of the basic information, which was capturecl from both short-form and long-form questionnaires to obtain complete-count records. After data capture, computer routines reviewed the completecount records for mail returns (inclucling the small number of Internet ant!
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. The purpose of the edit and telephone follow-up was to obtain basic items for all members of large households ant!
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The hot-cleck process, in contrast, continually updated the values in the distribution from the census ciata themselves imputation for a missing entry was made from the latest stored value that fit other known characteristics of the person or housing unit. Because the census records were storer!
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Some hot-cleck matrixes apply to specific items; other matrixes jointly impute values for groups of items. Subject specialists in the Population Division ant!
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"Hot Deck" cell values 1 (rec.
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Because housing tenure was the only short-form housing item in 2000, the imputation specifications for short-form records were simple: · accept a reported value for tenure from an occupied housing unit; · fill in a missing value by using the reported value for the preceding household that falls in the same cell as the nonreporting household. The imputation matrix included 5 cells: household size 1 person; household size 2 people (household with spouse present, other household)
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resulted from the decision to limit space on the mailback questionnaire for recording basic items to only 6 members. The coverage edit ant!
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because nothing is known about the basic characteristics iThese and other characteristics of whole-person imputations were obtained from tabulations by panel staff of U.S. Census Bureau, File of Census Imputations by Postratum, provided to the panel July 30, 2002 (Schindler, 2001~.
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Census Bureau, File of Census Imputations by Poststratum, provided to the panel July 30, 2001 (Schindler, 2001)
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for type 4 imputations, for which occupancy status, and, if neec! be, occupied household size and basic items had to be imputed (the donor pool consisted!
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American Indians ant! Alaska Natives on reservations have the highest whole-househoic!
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Owner 58.S 13.6 10.S 16.9 0.S 0.3 Renter 71.2 12.5 7.0 9.4 1.7 0.5 Total Owner 60.4 14.7 9.1 15.7 0.9 0.3 Renter 71.9 14.1 5.9 S.2 2.0 0.6 Grand Total 66.0 14.4 7.6 12.1 1.3 0.5 NOTES: See Box 4.2 in Chapter 4 for definition of imputation types; type 1 imputation is not included because it involves imputation for one or more people in a household with at least one data-defined person. SOURCE: Tabulations by panel staff of U.S.
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Clerks keyed data items from images when the automated technology could not read the responses. Keying of long-form-sample information was carried out in a second, separate process in order to permit the fastest possible completion of data capture for the basic items on all returns.
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