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... The Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments has been broadly charged to review proposed topics for evaluations and experiments and recommend priorities for them for the 2010 census, to consider what can be learned from the 2010 testing cycle to better plan for the 2020 census, and to assess the Census Bureau's overall continuing research program for the nation's decennial censuses. The primary purpose of this interim report is to help reduce the possible subjects for census experimentation from an initial list of 52 research topics compiled by the Census Bureau to perhaps 6, which is consistent with the size of the experimentation program in 2000.
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... that assesses the utility of administrative records for assistance in specific census component processes -- for example, for improvement of the Master Address File, for nonresponse follow-up, for assessment of duplicate status, and for coverage improvement. In addition, either as an experiment or through evaluations, the Census Bureau should collect sufficient data to support assessment of the degree to which targeting various census processes, using administrative records, could reduce census costs or improve census quality.
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... This information will support a comprehensive evaluation of the Local Update of Census Addresses and address canvassing. In addition, sufficient information should be retained, including relevant information from administrative records and the American Community Survey, to support evaluations of methods for targeting blocks that may not benefit from block canvassing.
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... OVERALL CENSUS RESEARCH PROGRAM It appears that basic census research is not receiving the priority and support needed to best guide census redesign. For example, tests on some topics have been unnecessarily repeated, and previous research has sometimes been ignored in designing newer tests.
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... The third issue is the role of telephone questionnaire assistance in 2010. RECOMMENDATION 9: The Census Bureau should use dual-recording systems, quantitative validation metrics, dedicated processing systems, periodic system checkpoints, strict control over handheld devices, and related techniques to ensure and then verify the accuracy of the data collected from handheld computing devices.
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... information to better estimate the additional resources required as a result of expanding Telephone Questionnaire Assistance in this way.
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