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Glossary and Abbreviations
Pages 511-532

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From page 511...
... See Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation. ACE: Address Control File ACS: American Community Survey Address Control File (ACF)
From page 512...
... by the Census Bureau as a primary means of disseminating ciata from the 2000 census, the 1990 census, the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, and the American Community Survey. It is accessible at http://factfincler.census.gov [1/10/04~.
From page 513...
... updates from the Local Update of Census Addresses Program were insufficient as primary sources of address updates. Block cluster: Group of one or more census blocks expecter!
From page 514...
... Census Day is the ciate for which census respondents are supposes! to describe their household population, ant!
From page 515...
... The CAUS Program uses American Community Survey enumerators to collect geographic updates as they perform their duties, using laptop computer systems equipped with GPS receivers. Complete count; complete-count items: The basic data items asker!
From page 516...
... : A process established by the Census Bureau to enable state, local, and tribal governments to challenge their 2000 census counts if they believed that inappropriate tabulation boundaries had been used or that specific living quarters had been miscounted. Upon review, the local governments could be issued a letter attesting to a revised count for use in such purposes as fund allocation; the enabling regulation stipulated that counts revised under CQR would not affect a state's apportionment count.
From page 517...
... . Coverage evaluation: Statistical studies concluctec!
From page 518...
... The Delivery Sequence File was first user! as a source of updates to the Master Address File for the 2000 census, following enactment of the Address List Improvement Act of 1994.
From page 519...
... Error: The difference between an estimate and the true value. E-sample: The set of census enumerations for a sample of census block clusters; part of the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation, it is user!
From page 520...
... . A structure that houses group quarters may also include one or more housing units (e.g., the apartment for a resident faculty member in a clormitory)
From page 521...
... into a housing unit after Census Day but before the reference date for a postenumeration survey, as in the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation. Integrated coverage measurement (ICM)
From page 522...
... Local review: Census Bureau program in the 1980 and 1990 censuses in which local officials were given the opportunity to review housing unit counts in census blocks. Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)
From page 523...
... See also complete count. LUCA: Local Update of Census Addresses MAF: Master Address File MAF/TIGER Enhancements Program: A Census Bureau program in anticipation of the 2010 census to make improvements to the Census Bureau's Master Address File ant!
From page 524...
... in the same housing unit on both Census Day ant! the reference ciate for a postenumeration survey, as in the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation.
From page 525...
... : Data capture technology that uses a scanner that "reacts" and interprets human handwriting and converts it into electronic form. Optical mark recognition (OMR)
From page 526...
... in a particular housing unit on Census Day but no longer liver! there as of the reference ciate for a postenumeration survey, as in the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation.
From page 527...
... PES-C: A variant form of a postenumeration survey user! in the 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation that involves interviewers (1)
From page 528...
... districts baser! on the results of a new decennial census.
From page 529...
... to apply at all lower geographic levels; synthetic error is produced in adjusted counts when this synthetic assumption is not satisfiecl. Targeted extended search: An Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.J operation that extenclec!
From page 530...
... to an aciciress by a census enumerator. The Master Address File is corrected!
From page 531...
... by one or more people who have a usual residence elsewhere. Usual residence: Uncler Census Bureau definition, the living quarters where a person spends more nights cluring a year than any other place.
From page 532...
... (2000~. Decennial census: 1990 census.


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