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5 CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT
5 CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT
Pages 81-88
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, and Kish (1990) have proposed venous data collection schemes that involve this key concept of extending the collection of census data in a more or less continuous fashion.
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We do note, however, that in order for continuous measurement to be a realistic option for Me 2000 census, a major effort will be required to evaluate continuous measurement options in parallel with work on the 1995 census test. Since continuous measurement will not be part of the 1995 census test, and because the Census Bureau is still relatively early in its development of a continuous measurement program' the panel has relatively little in the way of recommendations to include in this interim report.
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to provide a platform for integrating data from the decennial census, household surveys, demographic estimates, the TIGER system, and administrative records, Hereby eliminating duplication of effort; and (4) to take advantage of the continuous nature of the process in order to allow continuous improvements in the quality of operations, malce more effective use of experienced staff, and efficiently share data collection resources across different programs.
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Those surveys are nvanably too complex to conduct by mail, while the use of mall to collect census data is undoubtedly a necessity on cost grounds. However, the continuous measurement program would result in direct benefits and cost savings for household surveys by providing a continuously updated, high-quality frame, the first feature of Alexander's prototype.
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By restricting data collection at the time of the count to just a few data items, there will be less burden on households to complete the portion of the census that is associated with the enumeration. This reduced respondent burden is likely to lead to a modest increase In mall response rates and should make it easier to collect data during nonresponse foHow-up.
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Such an ongoing commitment on the part of a census staff is also consistent with the recommendation in Chapter 3 that the Census Bureau maintain an ongoing presence in hard-to-enumerate communities, with a view to reducing differential undercount. A third benefit is that a continuous measurement operation would appear to provide an environment more conducive to introducing data from administrative record sources as part of census data.
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At such time, data users stand to gain something they would not otherwise have -- timely estimates late in the decade -- and the program would have the . opportunity to prove its worth by the time of the enumeration, thus substantially reducing concerns about the lack of long-form data collection in conjunction with the enumeration.
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However, for larger geographic areas, the continuous measurement system will provide much more useful time series of annual estimates, another benefit of the more timely data provided by this approach. Periodic household survey programs must also deal with the problem of providing reliable time-genes data in the face of innovations in data collection.
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