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JSM 2002 Abstract #301914
Activity Number: 170
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods*
Abstract - #301914
Title: Person Duplication in Census 2000
Author(s): Vincent Mule*+
Affiliation(s): U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 15007 Nebraska Lane, Bowie, Maryland, 20716, USA
Keywords: record linkage ; census coverage
Abstract:

This paper shows estimates of the amount of person duplication in Census 2000. These estimates were done for the October 2001 decision of the use of census data for non-redistricting purposes. We were concerned that perhaps the estimate of erroneous enumerations in the 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.) was too low because the estimate of duplicate enumerations as measured by the A.C.E. was less than the estimate from the 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES). Our matching work attempted to identify duplicate enumerations across the United States. As a benchmark ,we were able to compare our results to the A.C.E. results for the same geographic search areas. This work identified the amount of duplicate enumerations 1) outside of the geographic search area of A.C.E. and 2) between housing units and group quarters.

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