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Abstract #303473

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Activity Number: 158
Type: Luncheons
Date/Time: Monday, August 8, 2005 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #303473
Title: The American Community Survey (ACS) Challenges for Replacing the Census Long Form
Author(s): Rajendra P. Singh*+
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Address: , Woodbridge, VA, 22192,
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Abstract:

Congress appropriated funds to the U.S. Census Bureau enabling full nationwide implementation of the American Community Survey (ACS) beginning in January 2005. One-year data products from the 2005 ACS will be released in the summer of 2006. The ACS will replace the census long form as the primary source of socioeconomic and demographic data for small geographic areas of the country. The use of multimode collection and the combining of data over time (five years) present interesting methodological challenges to data producers and users: How do you interpret five-year average data? What survey controls should be used? How do you ensure year-to-year stability of estimates? These issues are only a few of the exciting challenges that face the designers of this new data collection effort.

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