Category Archives: Non-response Follow Up

Estimating the Size of a Small Population

Posted on September 28, 2011 by briana
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Let me tell you a wonderful story, a statistical detective story of sorts. During the summer, you may have seen statistics released from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 on same-sex couple unmarried partner households. We noticed that reported counts … Continue reading →

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Personal Lessons From The 2010 Census

Posted on June 16, 2011 by briana
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I’m finding myself looking back over the experience of the 2010 Census and drawing some lessons learned. If we’re smart as an organization, we’ll build the 2020 Census planning effort with these in mind. Here they are: Lesson 1: The … Continue reading →

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Senseless Assaults on Decent Public Servants

Posted on June 7, 2011 by briana
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Every day somewhere in the U.S., a Census Bureau field interviewer is working on one of our sample surveys. This work asks her to locate specific addresses that our statisticians have chosen to form a scientific sample representing all households … Continue reading →

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Costs of the Census; Some Good News

Posted on August 10, 2010 by briana
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There have been many reasonable critiques of the costs of the decennial census. At many public events I have shared my own judgment that we must reduce the costs of the next census. While the spending that occurred before 2009 … Continue reading →

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The Completion of Nonresponse Followup

Posted on June 28, 2010 by briana
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I am happy to announce that we have completed 99.6% of the Nonresponse Followup interviewing. Over the next few days this will move to 100%. We will continue to conduct quality assurance re-interviews on a sample of the cases, to … Continue reading →

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