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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778611003321

Titolo

The American Community Survey : summary of a workshop / / Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-309-17121-0

0-309-51375-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 55 pages)

Disciplina

310.723

Soggetti

Population forecasting - United States

Social surveys - United States

United States Statistical services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"To assist the Census Bureau in developing a research agenda to address ... methodological issues, the Committee on National Statistics held a workshop on September 13, 1998."--P. 1.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Combination of Information Across Areas""; ""3 Combination of Information Across Time""; ""4 Funding Formulas""; ""5 Weighting and Imputation""; ""6 Sample and Questionnaire Design""; ""7 Calibration of the Long Form to ACS Output""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""Appendix An Example of Combining Information""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The American Community Survey (ACS), to be run by the Census Bureau, will be a large (250,000 housing units a month), predominantly mailout/mailback survey that will collect information similar to that on the decennial census long form. This title summarizes that workshop.