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Activity Number: 288
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 : 8:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #305166
Title: Household Contact and Probing to Collect a Complete Address List and Household Roster in the Census Coverage Measurement Program
Author(s): Graciela Contreras*+ and Lora Rosenberger
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 2300 24th RD S, Arlington, VA, 22206, United States
Keywords: coverage measurement ; independent listing ; person interview
Abstract:

The goal of the Census Coverage Measurement (CCM) Program for the 2010 Census was to provide estimates of net coverage error and components of census coverage, for both housing units and persons living in housing units. To measure the coverage of housing units, the Independent Listing operation created a list of housing units or potential housing units that could exist as of Census Day or by the Person Interview timeframe in selected block clusters, completely independent from any census operations. Each interviewer made up to three attempts to contact a household member to ask if there were additional units at the sample address, such as garage or basement apartments, that may have been missed without talking to a household member. To measure coverage for persons, the Person Interview, which listed all household members living at the sample address any time between Census Day and the da


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