Evaluation of the Local Update of Census Addresses 99 (Luca 99)

By Owens, Karen L.

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Title:	Evaluation of the Local Update of Census Addresses 99 (Luca 99)
Author:	Owens, Karen L.
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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 Owens, K. L. (n.d.). Evaluation of the Local Update of Census Addresses 99 (Luca 99). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Statistical Reference Document

Excerpt
Excerpt: The U.S. Census Bureau conducted the Census 2000 Local Update of Census Addresses 99 program in update/leave and update/enumerate areas of the country from January of 1999 to June of 2000. We invited local and tribal governments to participate and those who participated were sent counts of housing units in blocks and lists of addresses in their area. Governments identified any block counts they deemed inaccurate and the Census Bureau recanvassed those blocks. This report documents the results of the Local Update of Census Addresses 99 operations. A summary of those results follows.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v 1. BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Precensus and Postcensus Local Review for the 1990 Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 LUCA operation for the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 LUCA Operations for Census 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4 Overview of the LUCA 99 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.5 Updating the DMAF with LUCA 99 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1 Census files used in this evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2 Definition of a LUCA 99 participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Levels of geography used for analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 Separate analysis for some geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.5 Original Source of an address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.6 Type of Enumeration Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.7 Type of address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.8 Addresses sent to LUCA 99 Recanvass that came back as ?added? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.9 Applying quality assurance procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3. LIMITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.1 Using 1990 housing unit counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2 Data for Rhode Island and D.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.3 The BSA size variable was overstated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4 Processing of address information for Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5 Comparing results to previous censuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.6 Special place and group quarters addresses may have been miscoded as housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1 How many governmental units participated in LUCA 99 and what are their characteristics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.2 How many addresses were on the address list before LUCA 99 Recanvass and what updates did field representatives make to them in the field? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.3 How many addresses did field representatives add in LUCA 99 Recanvass and what are their characteristics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.4 What are the characteristics of LUCA 99 Recanvass deletes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.5 What are the characteristics of LUCA 99 Recanvass corrections? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.6 How many addresses did participants appeal and how many of them were in the final census? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.7 What is the overall assessment of the LUCA 99 operations? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37