2004 Coverage Improvement in Census 2000 Enumeration

By U. S. Census Bureau Department

Book Id: WPLBN0000580503
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 3,432,108 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	2004 Coverage Improvement in Census 2000 Enumeration
Author:	U. S. Census Bureau Department
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Census., Census report
Collections:	U.S. Census Bureau Collection
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Publisher:	U.S. Census Bureau Department


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bureau Department, U. C. (n.d.). 2004 Coverage Improvement in Census 2000 Enumeration. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Statistical Reference Document

Excerpt
Excerpt: This Coverage Improvement topic report identifies and describes the decennial operations and programs from Census 2000 that substantially influenced census coverage, i.e. they contributed to adding or subtracting persons or housing units to the census count. This report will cover these operations which began about a month before Census Day (April 1, 2000) with the delivery of questionnaires in the Update/Leave (U/L) operation, and continued with subsequent operations such as the Be Counted Campaign and the later followup operations of Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) and Coverage Improvement Followup (CIFU). Drawing from the results of some thirty Census 2000 evaluations, we will summarize the relative contribution of more than fourteen care-fully orchestrated operations to decennial census coverage. However, we will not treat the various address listing or address building operations that took place before the actual decennial enumeration; these are discussed in the Address List Development Topic Report.

Table of Contents
Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v 1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.2 Historical perspective of census undercount and coverage improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.3 Census 2000 undercount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 2. Coverage Improvement Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 2.1 Enumeration baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 2.2 Coverage improvement methods since 1970 . . . . . . . . .3 2.3 Coverage improvement development in Census 2000 . . .4 3. Coverage Improvement Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 3.1 Adds (deletes) from 2000 coverage improvement operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 3.2 Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 4. Coverage Improvement Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 4.1 Update/Leave operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 4.2 Urban Update/Leave operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 4.3 Update/Enumerate operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 4.4 Service-Based Enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 4.5 Be Counted campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 4.6 Telephone Questionnaire Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 4.7 Nonresponse Followup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 4.8 Nonresponse Followup - Whole Household Usual Home Elsewhere probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 4.9 Coverage Edit Followup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 4.10 Coverage Improvement Followup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 4.11 Transient Night (T-Night) enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 4.12 Primary Selection Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 4.13 Housing Unit Unduplication Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 4.14 Coverage gains from coverage questions C1 and C2 on enumerator-completed questionnaires for Census 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 4.15 Count imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 4.16 Partnership and Marketing Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 4.17 Local Census Office delivery operation of questionnaires determined undeliverable as addressed by the U.S. Postal Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 5. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 5.1 Census 2000 operations influencing coverage . . . . . . .19 5.2 Census 2000 operations influencing differential coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 5.3 Future coverage improvement development . . . . . . . . .20