Supporting Document A
Examples of Headnotes for Tables 

Census Bureau Standard
Describing the Sources and Accuracy of Tabulations and Estimates
Version 1.5
Issued: 09 Mar 06

Authored by:
Jay Keller
Special Assistant to the Associate Director
for Methodology and Standards

 

Examples of Headnotes for Tables

The following examples are designed for Internet dissemination. Analogous notes for paper dissemination should reference the appropriate technical documentation in the second sentence. That technical documentation should contain the respective Intermediate Page Statement (see Attachment B for examples), and the relevant technical documentation statements (see Attachment C).

1. For 100 percent Census 2000 data

SOURCE: Census 2000. For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf2.pdf.

2. For Census 2000 sample data

SOURCE: Census 2000 long form sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0)
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf4.pdf (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0)

3. For American Community Survey data

SOURCE: American Community Survey, data based on twelve monthly samples during 2000. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.census.gov/acs/www/UseData/Accuracy/Accuracy1.htm.

4. For Demographic Survey data (example - Survey of Income and Program Participation)

SOURCE: Survey of Income and Program Participation. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.sipp.census.gov/sipp/methmain.htm.

5. For Economic Census data

SOURCE: 2002 Economic Census. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/pub_text/sector00/cmdesc.htm.

6. For Economic Survey data (example - Service Annual Survey)

SOURCE: 1998 Service Annual Survey. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/cv.html.

7. For Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)

SOURCE: Estimates for income year X obtained from models applied to CPS data. Model inputs also include Census 2000 and administrative records data. For information on the data sources, measures of uncertainty, confidentiality protection, sources of error, and comparisons with decennial census income and poverty estimates, see http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/documentation.html.

 

Document Management & Control

Version Issue Date Approval Description
1.0 23 Mar 01 Associate Directors Initial Release
1.1 24 Sep 02 Associate Directors Reissue
1.2 20 Aug 04 Configuration Mgr. Updated Webpage url references.
1.3 14 Jan 05 Configuration Mgr. Reformatted to comply with Census Bureau Identity Standard and Quality Program Document Management Plan
1.4 04 Apr 05 M&S Council Name change for standard
1.5 09 Mar 06 Configuration Mgr. Inserted hyperlink for main standard
       
       
       
       
       

The most current version of this document is maintained on the Census Bureau Intranet and may
be accessed from the Quality Management Repository.

Category: Standard   
Filename: S15-1_v1.5_Examples_Headnotes