637 – The Use of Auxiliary Data in Frame Development, Coverage Assessment, and Field Data Collection
Relationship Between Positive Responses to Child-Specific Probes on the 2010 Census Questionnaire and 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Nonmatching Young Children
Mary H. Mulry
U.S. Census Bureau, Fort Worth, Texas
As part of the preparations for the 2020 U.S. Census, the U.S. Census Bureau conducted research to gain insight about the causes of the long-standing undercount of young children in decennial censuses and in Census Bureau sample surveys. This paper reports results of regression modeling to explore the relationship between the positive responses to child-specific probes on the 2010 Census questionnaire and 2010 Census Coverage Measurement (CCM) weighted nonmatching children ages 0 to 4. The units of analysis are Tapestry segments from a third-party segmentation of the population by geography and lifestyle. The coverage probes for young children and other household members appeared for the first time on the 2010 Census questionnaire so analyses of comparable data from previous censuses are not available. The paper also examines whether most positive responses to coverage probes are in areas less likely to respond to the census or if some respondents in areas with high response are expressing confusion about whether to list children on their census forms.