Abstract #301535

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301535
Activity Number: 46
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 3, 2003 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301535
Title: Coverage Improvement in Census 2000
Author(s): Jon R. Clark*+
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 3290 Elsc Ave., Waldorf, MD, 20603,
Keywords: coverage ; coverage improvement ; enumeration
Abstract:

Many decennial enumeration methods were employed specifically to improve the coverage of Census 2000 while many other operations substantively impacted coverage. This imposing array of census operations include the initial enumeration methods of Update/Leave and the Mailout operations to the later followup operations such as Nonresponse Followup and Coverage Improvement Followup. They were designed and collectively orchestrated to provide an accurate count of the housing and population of the United States. This paper will summarize the relative contribution of these operations to coverage and to differential coverage. It will draw from 30 formal evaluations in the Census 2000 Evaluation Program and from several auxiliary reports. It does not treat the various address listing operations that took place before the actual decennial enumeration.

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