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Abstract #301222

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Activity Number: 267
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301222
Title: A Policy Application: Using Administrative Records to Supplement Census Bureau Programs
Author(s): Sally M. Obenski*+ and Ron Prevost
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation Div., Washington, DC, 20233,
Keywords: administrative records ; demographic programs ; linkage
Abstract:

Administrative records coupled with state-of-the-art record linkage methodologies are proving to be a powerful tool for supplementing the Census Bureau's demographic, decennial, and geographic programs. For example, rather than supplanting a traditional decennial census as envisioned earlier in the administrative records program's history, research and analysis results point instead to a supporting role. Likewise, instead of replacing traditional household surveys with administrative data that provide similar information, it appears that administrative data and their analyses are most effective in strengthening and augmenting direct data collection programs. Administrative records have long been considered a potential means for reducing cost and respondent burden while improving data quality. Key events have shaped the current program solving substantive problems heretofore having vexed advances in administrative records uses. Due to these breakthroughs, administrative records are already improving existing programs and emerging as powerful tools for an array of survey, census, and program uses.

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