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A census "experiment" usually involves field data collection during the census in which alternatives to current census processes are assessed for a subset of the population. An "evaluation" is usually a post hoc analysis of data collected as part of the decennial census processing to determine whether individual steps in the census operated as expected.
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CENSUS EXPERIMENTS The panel identified three priority experiments for inclusion in the 2010 census to assist 2020 census planning (in one instance, there might be several related experiments) : an experiment on the use of the Internet for data collection; an experiment on the use of administrative records for various census purposes; and an experiment (or set of experiments)
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that assesses the utility of admin istrative 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 sta tus, and for coverage improvement. In addition, either as an ex periment or through evaluations, the Census Bureau should col lect 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 Amer ican Community Survey, to support evaluations of methods for targeting blocks that may not benefit from block canvassing.
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The Census Bureau should therefore take the first steps toward remedying this by collecting sufficient information in 2010 to evaluate ideas on how to include this capability in the 2020 census coverage measurement program. Recommendation 7: The Census Bureau should collect sufficient data in 2010 to support the evaluation of potential methods for assessing the omission rate of group quarters residents and the rate of locating group quarters in the wrong census geography.
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The first issue is the possibility of the introduction of errors into the data collection transmissions by the handheld computing devices that will be used to follow up households that do not return a mail questionnaire. The second issue is the possibility of interoperability problems in the various software systems constituting the management information system for the 2010 census.
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This would pro vide an estimate of the additional costs of nonresponse follow up due to the failure to collect the entire census questionnaire for those cases. The Census Bureau should also consider carry ing out an experiment whereby a sample of callers to Telephone Questionnaire Assistance are asked whether they would mind providing their full information to better estimate the additional resources required as a result of expanding Telephone Question naire Assistance in this way.
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