Abstract #301403

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301403
Activity Number: 13
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 3, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301403
Title: Comparing Social Characteristics Between Census 2000 and the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey
Author(s): David A. Raglin*+ and Theresa F. Leslie and Deborah H. Griffin
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 1515 Emerson Ave., McLean, VA, 22101-5708,
Keywords: sample data comparisons ; ACS
Abstract:

This paper compares the results from Census 2000 to the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS) for various long-form social characteristics such as education, marital status, disability, place of birth, and language spoken at home. The comparisons not only show which differences are statistically different, but also where the differences are large enough to change conclusions made from the data. The paper looks at methodological reasons for the differences. The C2SS was a survey of about 700,000 housing units during the year 2000 that used the data collection methods of the American Community Survey (ACS), a new survey being tested by the Census Bureau. It is designed to be a replacement for the Decennial Census long form. The long form asks questions on education, employment, income, ancestry, housing value, rent, and many other topics. The C2SS was designed to test how feasible it was to collect long-form data at the same time as a Census was being conducted and it was the first large-scale national collection of data using the ACS process.

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