Modernizing the U.S. Census.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edmondston, Barry
Otros Autores: Schultze, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 1900.
Temas:
United States. > Bureau of the Census.
United States. > Bureau of the Census
United States > Census > Planning.
United States > Census > Methodology.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modernizing the U.S. Census
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Summary
  • OVERALL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION
  • A REDESIGNED CENSUS
  • Statistical Estimation
  • Improving Response
  • Reducing Costs
  • Support for the New Design
  • CENSUS CONTENT AND THE LONG FORM
  • DATA ON RACE AND ETHNICITY
  • SOME RADICAL ALTERNATIVES TO THE CENSUS
  • A National Register
  • An Administrative Records Census
  • A Census Conducted by the U.S. Postal Service
  • A Sample or Rolling Census
  • INTERCENSAL SMALL-AREA DATA
  • 1 The Role of the CensusOVERVIEW OF THE REPORT
  • THE NEED FOR CENSUS DATA
  • Data Needs for Reapportionment and Redistricting
  • Other Data Needs
  • Federal Agency Needs for Census Data
  • Needs of Other Data Users
  • Conclusion About Data Needs
  • CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING APPROACHES TO THE CENSUS
  • NOTES
  • 2 Population Coverage and Its Implications
  • COVERAGE ESTIMATES
  • Coverage Errors
  • Undercount by Subgroups
  • Errors in Small-Area Data
  • IMPLICATIONS OF UNDERENUMERATION
  • Effects on Congressional Apportionment
  • Effects on Distribution of Federal FundsNOTES
  • 3 Census Cost Increases and Their Causes
  • GENERAL FACTORS
  • SPECIFIC FACTORS AND MARGINAL COSTS
  • Census Content
  • Changes in Population and Housing
  • Mail Response Rates
  • Other Factors
  • Census Cost Changes
  • Census Staff Productivity
  • SUMMARY
  • NOTES
  • 4 Radical Alternatives
  • A NATIONAL REGISTER FOR THE BASIC CENSUS
  • AN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS CENSUS
  • A CENSUS CONDUCTED BY THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
  • A ROLLING OR SAMPLE CENSUS
  • NOTES
  • 5 A Redesigned Census
  • TWO APPROACHES TO COUNTING THE POPULATIONCensus Bureau Plans
  • Legal Issues of Statistical Estimation
  • BASIC ELEMENTS OF A NEW CENSUS DESIGN
  • Decreasing the Intensity of Nonresponse Follow-Up
  • Sampling for Nonresponse Follow-Up
  • Truncation of Enumeration After a Reasonable Effort
  • Alternative Techniques of Truncation
  • What Determines a Reasonable Effort
  • Survey-Based Methods to Complete the Count
  • ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO IMPROVE ACCURACY AND REDUCE COSTS
  • Improve Response Rates
  • A Simplified Questionnaire Design
  • Respondent-Friendly Long Forms and the Use of AppealsPartnerships with State and Local Governments
  • Partnership with the U.S. Postal Service
  • Current Role
  • Expanded Role
  • A REENGINEERED CENSUS
  • BUILDING PUBLIC SUPPORT
  • NOTES
  • 6 Census Content
  • THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING CENSUS CONTENT
  • THE LONG FORM
  • Costs
  • Mail Return Rates
  • Effects in 1980 and 1990
  • Experiments to Improve Response
  • Conclusions
  • Coverage
  • Matrix Sampling
  • CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT
  • Costs
  • Cost Savings from Dropping the Long Form

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