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Abstract #302933

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Activity Number: 21
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #302933
Title: Census 2000 Nonresponse Followup: Discrepancies in Enumerator-Assigned Housing Unit Status
Author(s): Michael Bentley*+ and Jennifer Tancreto
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 7123 Natures Road, Columbia, MD, 21046, United States
Keywords: Nonresponse Followup ; Census 2000 ; Enumerators ; Housing Status
Abstract:

One area of concern among census data users is the potential for misclassification of housing unit status by enumerators. The goal of this study is to determine what enumerator and other characteristics are associated with the questionable identification of housing unit status during Nonresponse Followup (NRFU). We compared the housing unit status during the NRFU operation with the status resulting from two followup operations, Coverage Improvement Followup (CIFU) and the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.). One of the main results we found is that the NRFU operation was more likely to result in a discrepant housing unit status compared to CIFU than when compared to A.C.E. Perhaps the main reason for this finding is that the CIFU universe disproportionately included units identified as "vacant" or "delete" in NRFU (approximately 74% of the workload), and thus a larger percentage was likely to be converted to occupied status. The most important determinant of whether a housing unit status during NRFU will be different in the A.C.E. or CIFU is whether the respondent was a household member or a proxy.

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