Abstract #300952

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300952
Activity Number: 318
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300952
Title: Rostering, Residence Rules, and Coverage: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
Author(s): Laurie Schwede*+ and Karen M. Mills
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: CSMR/SRD, Washington, DC, 20233-9100,
Keywords: rostering ; residence rules ; within-household coverage ; census
Abstract:

At the beginning of each decade, the Census Bureau begins research programs in such core areas as rostering, residence rules, and coverage to prepare for the next census. Interdivisional working groups are formed to share ideas for improvements; proposals are developed; tests are proposed, implemented, and analyzed; and the process culminates in decisions on methods, procedures, forms, and questions for the next census. This paper reviews Census Bureau research on rostering, residence rules, and within-household coverage from the 1990s through Census 2000. That decade saw testing of a roster format collecting names of household residents up front against a new approach asking persons to start by just counting residents; the latter was used for the short form in Census 2000. Likewise, the residence rules were examined throughout the 1990s, resulting in several changes for Census 2000. Coverage rates were used as an indicator of which rostering methods would go forward and which would be abandoned. We are now in the planning stages for Census 2010, revisiting some of these issues and planning new tests; these will be discussed in the paper.

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