Skip to main content

Reengineering the 2010 Census Risks and Challenges (2004) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

I Background and General Planning
1 The Panel on Research on Future Census Methods
Pages 15-22

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 15...
... Part ~ Background!
Read the entire page →
From page 17...
... of the National Research Council convene two panels, one to provide an independent and comprehensive review of the 2000 census and one to examine census conduct in 2000 with an eye toward the planning of the 2010 census.
Read the entire page →
From page 18...
... First, this pane! was formed very early relative to the census it examines, a factor that makes it unique in the experience of National Research Council panels regarding the decennial census.
Read the entire page →
From page 19...
... to Review the 2000 Census to visit data capture centers, regional census offices, and local census offices during the conduct of the 2000 census. The two census panels held one joint meeting in March 2003 to hear final results from the Census Bureau's Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Program and the Bureau's decision on statistical adjustment of census data for use in generating postcensal population estimates.
Read the entire page →
From page 20...
... , and offered early feedback on the general strategy in a letter report to acting census director William Barron in February 2001 (National Research Council, 2001c)
Read the entire page →
From page 21...
... Chapter 3 discusses the Census Bureau's plans to modernize its geographic resources. Chapter 4 examines a particularly crucial piece of the Bureau's plan for 2010: implementation of the American Community Survey and, with it, elimination of the census long form, and we suggest critical research priorities for the survey.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • future census
  • census methods
  • community survey
  • american community
  • coverage evaluation

  • trace sample
  • examine census
  • master trace
  • statistical adjustment
  • geographic resources

  • technical infrastructure
  • census panels
  • census offices
  • census data
  • census bureau

  • population counts
  • evaluation research
  • review address
  • census addresses
  • crucial piece

  • decennial census
  • council panels
  • panels jointly
  • address list
  • director william

  • william barron
  • portable computing
  • procedural evaluations
  • local census
  • postcensal population


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.