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Activity Number: 448
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: SSC
Abstract - #307942
Title: Preventing and Correcting Coverage Errors in the United States Decennial Census
Author(s): David Sheppard*+
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 8023 Delores Court , Chesapeake Beach, MD, 20732-4546,
Keywords: Decennial ; followup ; US Census Bureau
Abstract:

Ensuring that every person in the United States is counted once and only once is a vital goal of the Decennial Census. For many decades, the Census Bureau has evaluated coverage in the Census and documented that people are missed, counted more than once, or counted in the wrong place. In response, we have researched ways to help respondents initially report the appropriate household members, as well as looked for ways to identify households that did not. One of the primary means we use to correct the household roster when it is not enumerated correctly is through a coverage follow-up interview. In this paper, we present some of the results of the 2005 National Census Test and discuss the direction of the coverage follow-up operation for the 2010 Decennial Census.

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