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Activity Number:
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117
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 7, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #305879 |
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Title:
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How Quickly Do New Construction Addresses Appear on the Delivery Sequence File?
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Author(s):
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Tina Flanagan*+ and Clifford Loudermilk
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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2312 Pinefield Road, Waldorf, MD, 20601,
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Keywords:
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master address file ; delivery sequence file ; permit frame ; new construction ; lag
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Abstract:
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Currently several household surveys conducted by the Census Bureau sample from multiple frames including a unit frame which contains addresses from the decennial census and a permit frame which contains new construction addresses identified by permit offices. In the future, the Census Bureau would like to sample from a single frame consisting of the Master Address File (MAF). The MAF contains addresses from the 2000 census and is continually updated with new construction addresses by the U.S. Postal Service's Delivery Sequence File (DSF) and other sources. In this paper, we measure the time interval between the permit issue date and the DSF version date to see if the DSF can provide adequate coverage for new construction. The results show that the median lag time is 7 months, and by 24 months past the permit issue date, we have received 95% of permit frame units on the DSF.
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