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* ! 2010 Census Planning Challenges, Opportunities and Strategy
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H-Clayton
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Date / Time
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Type
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08/05/2001
2:00 PM
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3:50 PM
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Social Statistics Section*, Section on Government Statistics*
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Invited
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Organizer:
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Sally Obenski, U.S. Census Bureau
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Chair:
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Cynthia Clark, U.S. Census Bureau
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Discussant:
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3:20 PM - Connie Citro, Committee on National Statistics
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Floor Discussion
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3:35 PM
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Description
The ever-increasing complexity of changing demographics, household composition, and technology are rendering one-time, end-of-decade operations obsolete. Such static snapshots can no longer support the growing demographic and geospatial complexity of enumerating the United States population by housing units. Major reasons for this complexity are that the population is heterogeneous and mobile; household compositions are fluid; and technology has shorter and shorter life cycles affecting all population sectors. Additionally, as the number and quality of administrative records data increase so do requests for more and more linkages, leading to ever-more-complex and accurate data sets and mounting privacy and security concerns. Further, key stakeholders' expectations for more accurate, comprehensive, precise and timely data are rising. All of these factors-changing demographics and emergence of special populations, rapid technological change, and data linkages-are interdependent and surrounded by major policy, operational, and technical issues. The purpose of this paper is to describe these complexities, their relationships, and key concerns.
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