Analysis of Item Nonresponse Rates for the 100 Percent Housing and Population Items from Census 2000

By Norris, Sherri

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Title:	Analysis of Item Nonresponse Rates for the 100 Percent Housing and Population Items from Census 2000
Author:	Norris, Sherri
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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


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Statistical Reference Document

Excerpt
Excerpt: The goal of this evaluation is to determine the extent of item nonresponse for the Census 2000 hundred percent items (relationship, sex, age, Hispanic origin, race and tenure) which are collected for every resident and housing unit in the United States. Item nonresponse occurs when there is no answer provided to an item on the questionnaire. Inconsistent responses are not considered nonresponse. The universe for this evaluation is restricted to the housing unit population. People residing in group quarters are not included. The data for Puerto Rico was excluded from the analysis. Vacant housing units were excluded from the analysis. Rates are reported for each of the 100 percent household population items and tenure classified by form type (long versus short) and response mode (self versus enumerator). In addition, results of the Internet returns are reported. Some of the breakdowns within return characteristics are subject to interpretation. This analysis is performed to document and to give a wider perspective of the potential differences in the level of data completeness for the breakdowns within return characteristics. This will provide insight into the factors that may be influencing the respondent when completing the questionnaire. The reader should note that the questionnaires underwent processing including data capture and the Primary Selection Algorithm (PSA) prior to analysis that may effect the level of item nonresponse discussed in this report. For this analysis, persons are defined as Census 2000 data defined persons based on a housing unit enumeration record. A data defined person is a person record containing a predefined minimum amount of 100 percent data (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000b). People who did not answer the minimum amount of the 100 percent data are excluded from the analysis. These people are the totally allocated and whole household substitutions (See Census 2000 Evaluation B.1.a, Analysis of Imputation Rates for the 100 Percent Person and Housing Unit Data Items from Census 2000, for the analysis of these cases). The item nonresponse rates and rates apply only to the enumeration record for each housing unit (i.e. the ?return of record? as opposed to all census returns) so that comparisons between the item nonresponse and the imputation results could be performed. Examination of item nonresponse provides information about data quality. It may also suggest areas for improvement for the 2010 Census.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv 1. BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Previous censuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 100 Percent Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1 Item Nonresponse Rate Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Data for evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Applying Quality Assurance Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. LIMITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.1 Overall Item Nonresponse Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 Item Nonresponse Rates by Form Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Item Nonresponse Rates by Response Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.4 Item Nonresponse Rates by Response Mode and Form Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.5 Item Nonresponse Rates for the Internet Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Appendix A: Census 2000 Short Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Appendix B: Hundred percent Census Unedited File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Appendix C: Hundred Percent Census Unedited File (HCUF) Variable Recodes . . . . . . . . . . 28 Appendix D: Distribution of Response Mode by Form Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Appendix E: Distribution of Internet Response Mode and Form Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Appendix F: Distribution of Item Nonresponse by the Internet and Self/Short Response Mode 32 Appendix G: Puerto Rico Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33