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Census Bureau: Intercensal Demographic Estimates

The program produces annual estimates of the population and its demographic characteristics for the nation, states, and local governments. The data are used as population controls for major household surveys, and affect the accuracy of the country's key measures of unemployment, inflation, income, poverty, and health.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • These estimates assist elected officials and government program managers in allocating hundreds of billions of dollars each year by giving them updated estimates of the population for the country, states, counties, and local governmental units.
  • During the 1990s, the program had difficulty in measuring net international migration and is currently working to improve these estimates. Additionally, with the creation of the nationwide, large sample American Community Survey, the program should also more clearly incorporate programmatic changes into its strategic planning documents.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continue to further increase the involvement of state partners and other stakeholders in production and quality review of the estimates and consider more external reviews through annual meetings.
  • Continue to set ambitious annual performance goals and incorporate them within formal documents.

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