Once, only once, and in the right place : residence rules in the decennial Census /

The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other recent censuses have relied on a set of residence rules to craft instructions on the census questionn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census
Other Authors: Cork, Daniel L., Voss, Paul R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Domicile > United States.
Census undercounts > United States.
Domicile > États-Unis.
Recensement > Sous-estimations > États-Unis.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Census > Methodology.
Census undercounts.
Domicile.
United States > Census > Methodology.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Residence and the Census
  • Introduction
  • Residence rules: development and interpretation
  • Residence rules meet real life: challenges in defining residence
  • The nonhousehold population
  • Complex and ambiguous living situations
  • Mirroring America: living situations and the Census
  • Improvements for the future
  • Residence principles for the decennial census
  • Nonhousehold enumeration
  • Operations, research, and testing.

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