Understanding the Quality of the 2020 Census: Interim Report
Title | Understanding the Quality of the 2020 Census: Interim Report PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2023-01-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780309686341 |
The decennial census is foundational to the functioning of American democracy, and maintaining the public's trust in the census and its resulting data is a correspondingly high-stakes affair. The 2020 Census was implemented in light of severe and unprecedented operational challenges, adjusting 2020 Census operations to the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and other disruptions. This interim report reviews and evaluates the quality of the data that were collected in the 2020 Census, as well as various process measures and indicators of data quality.
Assessing the 2020 Census
Title | Assessing the 2020 Census PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-07-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780309706469 |
Since 1790, the U.S. census has been a recurring, essential civic ceremony in which everyone counts; it reaffirms a commitment to equality among all, as political representation is explicitly tied to population counts. Assessing the 2020 Census looks at the quality of the 2020 Census and its constituent operations, drawing appropriate comparisons with prior censuses. The report acknowledges the extraordinary challenges the Census Bureau faced in conducting the census and provides guidance as it plans for the 2030 Census. In addition, the report encourages research and development as the goals and designs for the 2030 Census are developed, urging the Census Bureau to establish a true partnership with census data users and government partners at the state, local, tribal, and federal levels.
Innovations for the 2020 Census
Title | Innovations for the 2020 Census PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Census Bureau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | United States |
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Change and the 2020 Census
Title | Change and the 2020 Census PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2011-07-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309211212 |
Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 census, the Panel to Review the 2010 Census uses this first interim report to suggest general priorities for 2020 research. Although the Census Bureau has taken some useful organizational and administrative steps to prepare for 2020, the panel offers three core recommendations, and suggests the Census Bureau take and assertive, aggressive approach to 2020 planning rather than casting possibilities purely as hypothetical. The first recommendation on research and development suggests four broad topic areas for research early in the decade. Second, the report suggest that the Bureau take an aggressive, assertive posture toward research in these priority areas. Third, it identifies the setting of bold goals as essential to underscoring the need for serious reengineering and building commitment to change.
Experimentation and Evaluation Plans for the 2010 Census
Title | Experimentation and Evaluation Plans for the 2010 Census PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309115450 |
For the past 50 years, the Census Bureau has conducted experiments and evaluations with every decennial census involving field data collection during 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. The 2010 Program for Evaluations and Experiments, known as CPEX, has enormous potential to reduce costs and increase effectiveness of the 2020 census by reducing the initial list of potential research topics from 52 to 6. The panel identified three priority experiments for inclusion in the 2010 census to assist 2020 census planning: (1) an experiment on the use of the Internet for data collection; (2) an experiment on the use of administrative records for various census purposes; and (3) an experiment (or set of experiments) on features of the census questionnaire. They also came up with 11 recommendations to improve efficiency and quality of data collection including allowing use of the Internet for data submission and including one or more alternate questionnaire experiments to examine things such as the representation of race and ethnicity.
The American Community Survey
Title | The American Community Survey PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Government questionnaires |
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Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census
Title | Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census PDF eBook |
Author | William P. O'Hare |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2019-01-01 |
Genre | Census undercounts |
ISBN | 3030109739 |
This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why such undercounts occur. In addition to focusing on measuring census coverage for several demographic characteristics, including age, gender, race, Hispanic origin status, and tenure, it also considers several of the main hard-to-count populations, such as immigrants, the homeless, the LBGT community, children in foster care, and the disabled. However, given the dearth of accurate undercount data for these groups, they are covered less comprehensively than those demographic groups for which there is reliable undercount data from the Census Bureau. This book is of interest to demographers, statisticians, survey methodologists, and all those interested in census coverage.