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Activity Number: 666
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 4, 2016 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Government Statistics Section
Abstract #319974 View Presentation
Title: Evaluation of Estimation Methods for Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act
Author(s): Patrick M. Joyce*
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Keywords: evaluation ; small area estimation ; simulation study ; voting rights act ; ACS
Abstract:

In 2011, the Director the Census requested researchers look into the application of small area estimation for a small area/small domain problem relating to provisions under the Voting Rights Act using ACS data. A small area model was developed on short order leaving room for improvement and refinement of methods. For 2016's application there were additional challenges. Primarily that the Census, previously used as a control on fine race and ethnicity information, is no longer a directly useful proxy. Secondarily, the methods utilized previously exhibit issues related to assumptions in regards to the use of design-effects in approximating likelihood functions and the lack of useful regression forms. This paper seeks to demonstrate two approaches to the overall problem and to establish the respective utility of the presented methods. Specifically, their performance with regards to five-percent and ten thousand person language minority citizenship limited-English proficiency criteria.


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