Reengineering the 2010 Census Risks and Challenges (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 239-250
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. A complete and accurate Master Address File is critical not only to the success of the 2010 census but also to the effective implementation of the American Community Survey, the other household surveys conducted by the Census Bureau, and the 2008 dress rehearsal.
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of the MAF/TIGER Enhancements Program, including a program of evaluation and assessment of MAF coverage and input to the MAF/TIGER Redesign (Objective Two) , so that the revised database structure includes appropriate address source codes and other useful variables for evaluation.
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mechanisms for providing effective feedback to local and tribal governments, detailing and justifying the Bureau's decisions to use or not use the information provi~le~l; anal · coordination of efforts across the Bureau so that calls for local and tribal entities to supply input to the Master Address File, TIGER, the Boundary and Annexation Survey, and other Bureau programs are not unduly redundant and burdensome. Recommendation 3.6: The Census Bureau should evaluate the necessity of its plans to conduct a complete block canvass shortly before the 2010 census.
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Recommendation 3.7: The Census Bureau must: . fully exploit the address source information in the MAP Extract in order to complete 2000 census evaluations, fill gaps in knowle~lge remaining from the 2000 census evaluations, and assess causes of duplicate and omitted housing units; and · build the capability for timely anal accurate a~l~lress evaluation into the revised MAF/TIGER data architecture, including better ways to code address source histories and to format data sets for independent evaluation.
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Recommendation 4.3: The Census Bureau must issue a guide for users of ACS data that details the statistical implications of the difference between point-in-time and moving average estimates for various uses. Recommendation 4.4: As soon as possible, based on the 2006 proof-of-concept test, the Census Bureau should work with Congress and the administration to secure agreement on the overall design for the 2010 census and the American Community Survey (ACS)
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Recommendation 5.3: The Census Bureau must develop a complete engineering and testing plan for the software components of the portable computing devices, with particular attention to the computer-assisted personal interviewing interface, data capture systems, and communication/synchronization capabilities (inclu~ling assignment of enumerator workloa~l)
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Recommendation 5.5: The Census Bureau's development of tailored enumeration methods for special populations including irregular urban areas, colonies, gated communities, and rural areas must begin early, and not be put off for development late in the census planning cycle. Recommendation 5.6: The Census Bureau must quickly determine ways to implement a second questionnaire mailing to nonresponding households in the 2010 census, in order to improve mail response rates.
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Recommendation 5.9: The Census Bureau should conduct research into the effects of imputation on the distributions of characteristics, and routines for imputation of specific data items should be completely evaluated and revised as appropriate for use in the American Community Survey. TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUSINESS PROCESS Recommendation 6.~: In order to achieve the full benefit of architecture molding, the highest management levels of the Census Bureau should commit to the design and testing of a re~lesigne~l logical architecture, so that the most promising motley can facilitate the implementation of an efficient technical infrastructure for the 2010 census.
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The efforts of the MAF/TIGER redesign and PCD subsystem architects should be coordinated in partnership with the system architect for the decennial census. Recommendation 6.3: As part of the MAF/TIGER redesign, the Census Bureau should consider ways to make its application Cole for mapping, geoco~ling, ~ligital exchange, map editing, anal other functions openly available in order to facilitate continued ties to anal improvement in geographic information systems software applications and to tap the feedback of the broader computer science/software development community.
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Plans for census evaluation studies should include clear articulation of each study's relevance to overall census goals and objectives; connections between research findings and operational decisions should be made clear. The evaluation studies must be less focused on documentation and accounting of processes and more on exploratory and confirmatory research while still clearly documenting data quality.
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is an extract from a merged data set drawing from, among other sources, the Decennial Master Address File and the Hundred Percent Unedited and Edited Files (the person-level files of census reports that are tabulated to produce census results)
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Recommendation f;.5: The Master Trace Sample from the 2000 census should be expanded to include data from group quarters enumeration, the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation, and the Local Update of Census Addresses Program. Recommendation fi.6: The Census Bureau should explore ways to allow the broader research community to perform analyses using the 2000 Master Trace Sample, subject to confidentiality limitations.
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