American Community Survey Operations Plan

By U. S. Census Bureau Department

Book Id: WPLBN0000603437
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 285,032 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	American Community Survey Operations Plan
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.). American Community Survey Operations Plan. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Statistical Reference Document

Excerpt
Excerpt: The American Community Survey Operations Plan (the Plan) identifies and documents the individual components of the American Community Survey (ACS) and describes projects associated with making the transition from a demonstration program to a production survey. The Plan is intended to serve as a reference manual, and to assist communication and understanding about the ACS Program within and outside the Census Bureau. A glossary of ACS abbreviations and acronyms is attached.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Program History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Full Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ACS Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Address List Development and Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Project: Community Address Updating System (CAUS) . . . . . . . 10 Sample Design and Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Project: Oversampling of Low Mail Response Areas . . . . . . . . . 13 Project: Oversampling for Small Population Groups . . . . . . . . . 14 Content and Questionnaire Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Residence Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 BLAISE Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Project: Shortening the ACS Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Data Collection and Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Mail Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Telephone Questionnaire Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Check-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Keying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Telephone Edit Followup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Data Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Edit and Imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Tabulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Disclosure Avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Project: Data Review/Automated Review Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Weighting and Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Project: Revision and Simplification of Weighting Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Project: Program of Integrated Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Data Products and Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Public Use Microdata Sample Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40