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National Surveys and Statistics |
Issues of measurement, data, and statistics are key to virtually all areas of science and public policy. U.S. census data, for example, determines not only how states are represented in Congress but also how federal funds are allocated to communities for things like education, transportation, and public health. Our work strives to improve statistical information and methods to inform public policy decisions, as well as to help integrate the nation’s highly decentralized federal statistical system. See also: |
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Other Reports of Interest
| Benefits, Burdens, and Prospects of the American Community Survey: Summary of a Workshop
(CNSTAT) 2013
In June 2012, the Committee on National Statistics (sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau) convened a Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey (ACS)---the detailed...
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| Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at the U.S.-Mexico Border
(CNSTAT) 2013
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for securing and managing the nation's borders. Over the past decade, DHS has dramatically stepped up its enforcement efforts at the...
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| Measuring What We Spend: Toward a New Consumer Expenditure Survey
(CNSTAT) 2013
The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes in the United States, as well as the characteristics of those...
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| The Subjective Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey: Assessment for Its Continuation
(CNSTAT) 2012
The American Time Use Survey (ATUS), conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, included a subjective well-being (SWB) module in 2010 and 2012. The module, funded by the National Institute on Aging...
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| Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey
(CNSTAT) 2012
In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample of the U.S....
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| Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys
(CNSTAT,BEES) 2012
The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and...
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| Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Interim Report
(CNSTAT,STEP) 2012
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect...
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| Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems
(CNSTAT,BAST) 2012
During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to improve...
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| Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
(CNSTAT,CSTB) 2012
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid...
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| The Future of Federal Household Surveys: Summary of a Workshop
(CNSTAT) 2011
Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perceptions of increasing response burden, inadequate...
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| Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System: Summary of a Workshop
(CNSTAT) 2011
On May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of the topics considered at that symposium was the...
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| Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
(CNSTAT,BOTA) 2011
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001...
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| Change and the 2020 Census: Not Whether But How
(CNSTAT) 2011
Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 census, the Panel to Review the 2010 Census uses this...
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| Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey: Interim Report
(CNSTAT) 2010
Following several years of testing and evaluation, the American Community Survey (ACS) was launched in 2005 as a replacement for the census "long form," used to collect detailed social, economic, and...
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| Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children: A Workshop Summary
(CNSTAT) 2010
This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured...
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